"I have no doubt that, in the present state of society, a Poet, by the very act of writing in metre, does in some degree separate himself from the mass of men, and from their immediate sympathy."

"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!"

"A Poet, in order to be a good Poet, must be a man of feeling, and a man of thought."

"My mind has been in a state of agitation, which I have not experienced for many years."

"The eye—it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will."