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.
Romantic poet
Preface to Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems
1800
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"Every great poet is a teacher; I wish to be considered as a teacher, or as nothing."
Strange & Unusual"A Poet, in order to be a good Poet, must be a man of feeling, and a man of thought."
Strange & Unusual"The Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul."
Strange & Unusual"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."
Strange & Unusual"To be incapable of a feeling of poetry, in proportion to the degree in which one is so, is to be without love of human nature, and without reverence for God."
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