"Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science."

"By words the mind is winged."

"One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can."

"A Poet, in order to be a good Poet, must be a man of feeling, and a man of thought."

"The deepest things that we can learn are things that we have felt."