The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.

Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: “Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life”.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Far off, men swell, bully and threaten: bring them hand to hand, and they are a feeble folk.

In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.