Learn To Write Well, Or Not To

Mere Poets Are Sottish As Mere Drunkards Are, Who Live In A Continual Mist, Without Seeing Or Judging Anything Clearly. A Man Should Be Learned In Several Sciences, And Should Have A Reasonable, Philosophical And In Some Measure A Mathematical Head, To Be A Complete And Excellent Poet.

Mankind Is Ever The Same, And Nothing Lost Out Of Nature, Though Everything Is Altered.

All Empire Is No More Than Power In Trust.

There Is A Pleasure In Being Mad, Which None But Madmen Know.

I Strongly Wish For What I Faintly Hope; Like The Daydreams Of Melancholy Men, I Think And Think In Things Impossible, Yet Love To Wander In That Golden Maze.