Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego.
The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.
Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.
Music’s golden tongue Flatter’d to tears this aged man and poor.
Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
Asleep in lap of legends old.
Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
Call the world if you please “the vale of soul-making.” Then you will find out the use of the world.
What occasions the greater part of the world’s quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.
A moment’s thought is passion’s passing knell.
The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.
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.
How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.
I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.
Stop and consider! life is but a day.
The imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream-he awoke and found it truth.
Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen.