"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."

"It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or e…"

"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world—and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover."

"I have no faith in anything but the power of God."

"The world is a joke; and I am the joker."