“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
