Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

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.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relation of the least-instructed human beings...

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.