144 quotes found
Romantic poet · English · 1795–1821
English Romantic poet (1795–1821)
“Beauty is truth truth beauty.”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“There is a budding morrow in midnight.”
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”
“I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could...”
“Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer”
“If I am destined to be happy with you herehow short is the longest LifeI wish to believe in immortalityI wish to live with you for ever.”
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
“Wherein lies happiness? In that which becksOur ready minds to fellowship divine,A fellowship with essence; till we shine,Full alchemizd, and free of space. BeholdThe clear religion of heaven!”
“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet...”
“Here lies one whose name was writ on water.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
“When by my solitary hearth I sit,When no fair dreams before my minds eye flit,And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,And wave thy silver pinions oer my ...”
“For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.”
“Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems i...”
“Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death...”