I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight..

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greate….

Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!.

There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable….

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave..

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it..

Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, whi….

A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that whi….

In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived..

Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity..

I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was g….

The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arise….

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?.

The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing ar….

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint..

As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to s….

Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view..

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mo….

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder ….

The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and d….

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind..