~ Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it ~ ~ A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. ~ ~ Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ~ ~ Health is my expected heaven. ~ ~ Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow. ~ ~ Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. ~ ~ Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers; Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide; The unhealthy pleasures, ex ~ ~ O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song! ~ ~ I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -
I have shudder'd at it.
I shudder no more.
I could be martyr'd for my religion
Love is my religion
And I could die for that.
I could die for you. ~ ~ Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine hosts Canary wine? ~ ~ Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ~ ~ The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~ ~ The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness. ~ ~ Philosophy will clip an angel's wings ~ ~ O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song ~ Most Popular Topics:
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