“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
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.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
