"The want of an object for my love is the sole reason why I am not a maniac."

"Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem."

"I have no faith in anything but the power of God."

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from d…"

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."