Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
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There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which li...
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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
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Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams
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Language is fossil poetry
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Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below.
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Books are for nothing but to inspire
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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
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The South-wind bringsLife, sunshine and desire,And on every mount and meadowBreathes aromatic fire;But over the dead he has no power,The lost, the los...
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Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
