"I have given up my pen, and will write no more for the public."

"I am not a metaphysician, but a simple-minded man."

"What is a Poet? To whom does he address himself? And what object hath he proposed to himself?"

"The world is an open book, full of the most rare and strange things, for him who has eyes to see."

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity."