Occupation: Poet Birth: August 4, 1792 Death: July 8, 1822
Joy, once lost, is pain.
The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom..
But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love..
There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most….
O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And frui….
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker..
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain..
I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude..
The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapabl….
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and custom m….
My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which….
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery..
Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale name of priest might shrink and d….
The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note..
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect..
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and child….
The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and ….
And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting every germ Of t….
I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.
But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!.
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear..