“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
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.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
