Occupation: Poet Birth: October 21, 1772 Death: July 25, 1834
And in today already walks tomorrow..
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it..
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you ha….
A great mind must be androgynous..
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions..
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius..
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree..
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks..
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception..
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman..
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope..
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment..
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood..
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of since….
My eyes make pictures when they are shut..
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either streng….
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage o….
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance..
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends..
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming..