To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
The best things in life make you sweaty.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Perversity is the human thirst for self torture.
Even in the grave, all is not lost.
Invisible things are the only realities.
Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
