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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general re...more

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

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In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity...more

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I have no words — alas! — to tellThe loveliness of loving well!

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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; — v...more

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If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?