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- Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Beauty
- Stupidity is a talent for misconception. Ignorance
- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Dreary
- I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. Atrocities
- The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. Beautiful
- In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. Absolutely
- Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. Chiefly
- Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Always Show
- That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. Afraid
- Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through… Accurate
- That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the… Beautiful
- The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on… Bent
- To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. Attain
- It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a… Age
- Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. Able
- With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Been
- It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. Always Fanciful
- There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one… Case
- The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. Admire
- I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. Abhorrence
- It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. General
- The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. Any
- The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee. Found
- In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it… Case
- A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds… Argument
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