Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
From John Keats
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
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