Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded t…

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doin…