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„But were there ever anyWrith’d not of passed joy?The feel of not to feel it,When there is none to heal it,Nor numbed sense to steel it,Was never said in rhyme.“
„I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of — I am, however young, writing at random — straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness — without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?“
„Nor do we merely feel these essencesFor one short hour; no, even as the treesThat whisper round a temple become soonDear as the temple’s self, so does the moon,The passion poesy, glories infinite,Haunt us till they become a cheering lightUnto our souls, and bound to us so fast,That, whether there be shine, or gloom o’ercast,They alway must be with us, or we die.“
„E’en like the passage of an angel’s tearThat falls through the clear ether silently.“
„And there shall be for thee all soft delightThat shadowy thought can win,A bright torch, and a casement ope at night,To let the warm Love in!“
„At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.“
„A drainless showerOf light is poesy; ’tis the supreme of power;’Tis might half slumb’ring on its own right arm.“
„Time, that aged nurse,Rocked me to patience.“
„The music, yearning like a God in pain.“
„And such too is the grandeur of the doomsWe have imagined for the mighty dead;All lovely tales that we have heard or read:An endless fountain of immortal drink,Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink.“
„The poetical character… is not itself — it has no self — it is every thing and nothing — It has no character — it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it fair or foul, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated. — It has as much delight in conceiving an Iago as an Imogen. What shocks the virtuous philospher, delights the camelion poet.“
„I saw pale kings and princes too,Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;They cried- “La Belle Dame sans MerciHath thee in thrall!”“
„She dwells with Beauty — Beauty that must die;And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lipsBidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips.Ay, in the very temple of DelightVeil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine,Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongueCan burst Joy’s grape against his palate fine;His soul shall taste the sadness of her might,And be among her cloudy trophies hung.“
„And they are gone: ay, ages long agoThese lovers fled away into the storm.“
„In spite of all,Some shape of beauty moves away the pallFrom our dark spirits.“
„A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing.“
„Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.“
„As though a tongueless nightingale should swellHer throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.“
„Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.“
„O magic sleep! O comfortable bird,That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mindTill it is hush’d and smooth!“
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