Guilt Is A Timorous Thing Ere Perpetration;

Poetry Is Not The Proper Antithesis To Prose, But To Science. Poetry Is Opposed To Science, And Prose To Meter. The Proper And Immediate Object Of Science Is The Acquirement, Or Communication Of Truth; The Proper And Immediate Object Of Poetry Is The Communication Of Immediate Pleasure.

Men, I Still Think, Ought To Be Weighed Not Counted.

I Stood In Unimaginable Trance And Agony That Cannot Be Remembered.

The Language Of The Dream/night Is Contrary To That Of Waking/day. It Is A Language Of Images And Sensations, The Various Dialects Of Which Are Far Less Different From Each Other, Than The Various Day-languages Of Nations.

An Undevout Poet Is An Impossibility.