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- Horrible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Nov 07, 2020
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
- Discussed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
- Mob
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
- Great Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
- Elevating
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
- Dislike
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
- Beautiful Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
- Lord
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- Nov 07, 2020