It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
The glory that was Greece.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and...
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie do...
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (s...
From childhood's hour I have not been
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the...
He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.
When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of...