And the death just avoided, was of that very character which I had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the Inquisition.
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
Always write first things uppermost in the heart.
Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates, yet I really knew little of my friend.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry!
A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.
A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.
A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
“Infinity.” This, like “God,” “spirit,” and some other expressions of which the equivalents exist in all languages, is by no means the expression of an idea – but of an effort at one. It stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
