I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
From John Keats
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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.
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
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