Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics

God has not given to us (in this state of existence) more than very limited powers of expression of one's ideas and feelings

the respect and attraction I feel for a mind that ventures to read direct in God's own book

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.

The language of poetry is the only speech which has in it the power of permanent impression

'Verse libertines' pioneered the work to get rid of obstacles between that which hampered the poet and separated him from his audience, less a matter of rules and formulae , more a return of spirit.