“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”
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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.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, ' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
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.