Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
It is with literature as with law or empire – an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
Beauty; the death, then, of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Yet, mad am I not – and very surely do I not dream.
We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation – to make a point – than to further the cause of truth.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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