"I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and have children by a Sonnet."

"I have a great objection to being a Poet."

"I would rather be a worm than a man."

"If a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel with it."

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days—with a rose and a myrtle tree."