Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Yet was he but a squire of low degree.