"We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."

"Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason."

"For, of all compositions, he thought that the sonnet Best repaid all the toil you expended upon it."

"The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth—truth conveyed to the understanding, not direc…"

"Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good."

"Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a win…"

"Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives…"

"It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the a…"

"Musæo contigens cuncta lepore."

"An erit, qui velle recuset Os populi meruisse? et cedro digna locutus Linquere, nec scombros metuentia carmina nec thus."