The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.
You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.