With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
Verse, Fame and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser - Death is Life's high meed.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.
I see a lilly on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too. I met a lady in the meads Full beautiful, a faery's child Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.
Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty.
If I should die', said I to myself, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.'
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