Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
There is a budding morrow in midnight.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
Beauty is truth truth beauty.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at fin...
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.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home.
Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,What can I do to kill it and be free?
Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!