Not the poem which we have read, but that to which we return, with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry.

The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize t…

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

The most general definition of beauty...Multeity in Unity.

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it becau…

One of our universities recently made a survey of the reading habits of the American public; it decided that forty-eight percent of all Americans read, during …