Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.