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 | "Love is my religion - I could die for it." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!" | |
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Found in the topic Feelings.
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| "I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception
of its beauty." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart?s affections
and the Truth of the Imagination." | |
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Found in the topic Holiday.
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| "I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in
uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after
fact and reason...." | |
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Found in the topic Capable.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Poetry.
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| "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter." | |
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Found in the topic Illusions.
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| "Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy To those who woo her
with too slavish knees." | |
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Found in the topic False.
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| "When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned
my teeming brain." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the
maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the
vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss?d
cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the
gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding
more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm
days will never cease, For Summer has o?er-brimm?d their clammy
cells." | |
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Found in the topic Autumn.
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| "Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can
stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity." | |
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Found in the topic Adversity.
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| "Clever men are good, but they are not the best." | |
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Found in the topic Clergy.
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| "Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced?even a proverb is
no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it." | |
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Found in the topic Experience.
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| "One life,?a little gleam of time between two Eternities." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Hero.
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| "We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of
any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities
before pronouncing on his bad." | |
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Found in the topic Judgment.
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| "Music"s golden tongue Flatter"d to tears this aged man and
poor." | |
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Found in the topic Music.
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| "There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her
texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy
will clip an angel"s wings." | |
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Found in the topic Philosophy.
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| "How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a
sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do
not "babble," I think of green fields; I muse with the greatest affection
on every flower I have know from my infancy ? their shapes and colours are
as new to me as if I had just created them with superhuman fancy." | |
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Found in the topic Sense.
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| "Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time." | |
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Found in the topic Eternity.
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