Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.
The cloudlets are lazily sailing O’er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o’er me...
Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven’s blue o’er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.
Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.
Every woman is the gift of a world to me.
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.
At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it – but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?
The beauteous eyes of the spring’s fair night With comfort are downward gazing.
Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.
Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman.
The night comes stealing o’er me, And clouds are on the sea; While the wavelets rustle before me With a mystical melody.
The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.
Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.