“What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party”
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“What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party”
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body”
“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness”
“Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep”
“Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man”
“The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse”
“Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect”
“A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it”
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced ”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead ”
“Love is my religion - I could die for it ”
“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music”
“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk”
““I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”
“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery”
“Philosophy will clip an angel's wings”
“I am fit for nothing but literature”
“Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty”
“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know”
“He ne'er is crowned with immortality who fears to follow where airy voices lead.”