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"I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk my dream aloud - I build it bright to see, - I build it on the moonlit cloud, To which I looked with thee."
"I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly."
"Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little."
"The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest."
"A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest."
"Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand."
"OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is."
"Through heaven and earth God's will moves freely, and I follow it, As color follows light. He overflows The firmamental walls with deity, Therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad, His pity may do so, His angels must, Whene'er He gives them charges."
"O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!"
"Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!"
"Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule."
"Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry."
"We can't separate our humanity from our poetry."
"I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm."
"Whatever's lost, it first was won."
"O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge."
"She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)"
"The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency."
"The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown."
"But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave."