Now a soft kiss - Aye by that kiss I vow an endless bliss.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither...
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive a thing which enters into one's soul...
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity it should...
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest...
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among...
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have...
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and...
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an...
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the...
You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He...
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Land and sea weakness and decline are great separators but death is the...
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks your loveliness and the hour...
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration or...
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in...
'Beauty is truth truth beauty ' - that is all ye know on earth and all ye...
The youth of an art is like the youth of anything else its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger but we care less about it.
