"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death."

"If a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel with it."

"I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and have children by a Sonnet."

"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

"I feel my fate to be a most unhappy one."