Occupation: Poet Birth: March 6, 1806 Death: June 29, 1861
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand..
Light tomorrow with today!.
True knowledge comes only through suffering..
The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play..
I love you for the part of me that you bring out..
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes..
Silence is the best response to a fool..
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long..
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach..
You're something between a dream and a miracle..
What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all..
And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death..
The devil's most devilish when respectable..
The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The….
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?.
My sun sets to raise again..
Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully..
Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being..
It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden..
The essence of all beauty, I call love..