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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Every wish Is like a prayer
with God.

Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.

I work with patience, which is almost power.

But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.

I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

I worked with patience which means almost power.

Love that endures, from life that disappears!

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination ... down our earth to rake ...

Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe, - but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

Eve is a twofold mystery.

The world of books is still the world.

And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.

...But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath.

Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.

In your patience ye are strong.

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

Behold me! I am worthy
Of thy loving, for I love thee!

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ...

Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.

Never say No when the world says Aye

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

Italy/Is one thing, England one.

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile!

I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.

Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ...

The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this vindicating grace,
To live on still in love, and yet in vain

The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.

I have done most of my talking by post of late years
as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

Say over again, and yet once over again,
That thou dost love me ... -toll
The silver iterance!

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.

If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
And be all to me?

For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Earth's crammed with Heaven.

The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

Eyes of gentianellas azure,
Staring, winking at the skies.

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

Books are men of higher stature ...

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

Thou comest! all is said without a word.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!

Since when was genius found respectable?

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?

His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.

O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted
And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
Singing beside the hedge.

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

Nor myrtle
which means chiefly love: and love
Is something awful which one dare not touch
So early o' mornings.

Did you think of that? Who burns his viol will not dance, I know. To cymbals, Romney.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

Some people always sigh in thanking God.

And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?

With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!