Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.