| |  | | | | | | | | | | | Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. | | Uncategorized | | | To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair. | | Uncategorized | | | To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness | | Greatness | | | We loved with a love that was more than love. | | Love | | | We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused / in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery / by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press / their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner. | | Uncategorized | | | Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist | | Art; Nature; Painting | | | With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. | | Passion; Poetry | | | Words have no power to impress the mind with the exquisite horror of their reality | | Words | | | years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute. | | Uncategorized | | | Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety. | | Dreams | | | Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart-one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man | | Uncategorized | | | [Soon] Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue. | | Uncategorized | | | | | | | |
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