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 vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
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.
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.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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.
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 shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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 intelligence and make it a soul?
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 truth of imagination.
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.
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 great divorcer for ever.
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.