I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
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.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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.
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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.
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
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.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
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.
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.
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.