“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
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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.
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.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
