“Poet's food is love and fame.”

“Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.”

“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.”

“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”

“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but of the very leaves under which they pass”

“I'm...like a poet hiddenIn the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.”