Occupation: Poet Birth: August 4, 1792 Death: July 8, 1822
I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down..
I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!.
A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage..
The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his c….
It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of we….
In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun..
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought..
Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!.
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams..
Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips..
Strange thoughts beget strange deeds..
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past..
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!.
The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to t….
Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!.
Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great La….
Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man..
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and tortur….
When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him..
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the ….
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it..