Algernon Charles Swinburne

"Despair the twin-born of devotion."

"Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English; a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing."

"The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible …"

"Marvellous mercies and infinite love."

"Æschylus is above all things the poet of righteousness. "But in any wise, I say unto thee, revere thou the altar of righteousness": this is the crowning admonition of his doctrine, as its crowning pro…"

"Change lays not her hand upon truth."

"Is not Precedent indeed a King of men?"

"It is long since Mr. Carlyle expressed his opinion that if any poet or other literary creature could really be "killed off by one critique" or many, the sooner he was so despatched the better; a senti…"