The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share
