The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
