“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

“Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.”

“poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge”

“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.”

“A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?”

“Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride,Howe'er disguised in its own majesty,Is littleness; that he, who feels contemptFor any living thing, hath facultiesWhich he has never used; that thought with himIs in its infancy...”

“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”