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"If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."
"Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die."
"The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!"
"Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow."
"The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself."
"In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity."
"The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others."
"This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood, So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be conscience-calm'd. See, here it is-- I hold it towards you."
"How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not."
"Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines."
"Load every rift with ore."
"Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust."
"Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live."
"There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done."
"Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity."
"I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter."
"Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear."
"Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers."
"Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories."
"What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet."