Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

“I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.”

This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing