He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.