“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
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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.
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.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
