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“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
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“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”
“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
“Here lies one whose name was writ on water.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”
“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in the rubbish.”
“Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”
“I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!”
“Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.”
“Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
“Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci. Why so sad a moan? Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown; The reading of an ever-changing tale; The light uplifting of a maiden's veil; A pigeon tumbling in clear summer air; A laughing schoolboy, without grief or care, Riding the springy branches of an elm.”
“Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.”
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”
“Beauty is truth - truth, beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
“Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.”
“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.”
“Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.”
“Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.”
“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”
“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain.”
“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
“To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind.”
“I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”
“To Sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind.”
“You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”
“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”
“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.”
“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
“The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.”
“It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.”
“You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.”
“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.”
“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
“No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.”
“There is a budding morrow in midnight.”