The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.

You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden