Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are shewing you the grounds of it.

A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished readi…

I realized that it was not by wisdom that poets write their poetry, but by a kind of nature or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets; for these a…

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.