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A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it. - [Proverbs (General)] Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully eschew. - [Failure] Death is Life's high meed. - [Death] Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. - [Bees] Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. - [Fancy] Four seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man; He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span; He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring's honey'd-cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven; quiet coves His soul hath in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness--to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. He has his Winter, too, of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature. - [Life] I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss. - [Kisses] If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all. - [Poetry] If you should have a Boy do not christen him John, and persuade George not to let his partiality for me come across--'T is a bad name, and goes against a Man--If my name had been Edmund I should have been more fortunate-- - in a letter to his sister-in-law, Georgiana Keats, January 13, 1820 [Names] In the long vista of the years to roll, Let me not see my country's honor fade; Oh! let me see our land retain its soul! Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade. - [Freedom] Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu. - [Joy] Let me have music dying, and I seek no more delight. - [Music] Music's golden tongue. - [Music] Noiseless as fear in a wide wilderness. - [Fear] O! moon old boughs lisp forth a holier din, The while they feel thine airy fellowship: Thou dost bless everywhere with silver lip, Kissing dead things to life. - [Moon] 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] Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. - [Poetry] That queen of secrecy, the violet. - [Flowers] There is not a fiercer hell than failure in a great object. - [Failure] What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. - [Imagination] 'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they? - A Prophecy (l. 1) [Night] Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings? - Addressed to Haydon (sonnet X) [Hearing] Blue! Gentle cousin of the forest green, Married to green in all the sweetest flowers-- Forget-me-not,--the blue bell,--and, that queen Of secrecy, the violet: what strange powers Hast thou, as a mere shadow! But how great, When in an Eye thou art alive with fate! - Answer to a Sonnet by J.H. Reynolds [Fate] Roses, and pinks, and violets, to adorn The shrine of Flora in her early May. - Dedication to Leigh Hunt [Flowers] No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream. - Endymion (bk. I) [Immortality] Displaying page 1 of 5 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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