For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
This section contains my favourite poetry, much of it from the romantic poets such as Byron and Shelley, but also from H. P. Lovecraft and others. Suggestions for poems to include are most welcome (especially if I haven't heard of them before!)
