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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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.
Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
There is nothing stable in the world uproar’s your only music.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.