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...
Time goes you say? Ah no! alas time stays we go.
