There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
The best things in life make you sweaty.
And all I loved, I loved alone.
And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams – In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.
Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
If you run out of ideas follow the road; you’ll get there.
I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.