Great Throughts Treasury

"Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty."

"Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances."

"How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!"

"Perhaps the life of every thinking man may be divided into three eras - the era of admiration, the era of action, the era of repose."

"The language of imagination is the native language of man."

"The language of poetry is the only speech which has in it the power of permanent impression."

"Too great this largess from thy hand I know yet ask that some few drops of it may light and listened to thy voice, and in it found the very Spring and Soul of Poetry."