“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“I find I cannot exist without Poetry”

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”

“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance".”

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”

“His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;”