Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

Poetry - No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will…