The quiet sense of something lost
Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves a shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, and slips into the bosom of the lake: So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip into my bosom and be lost in me.
Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir’d eyelids upon tir’d eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies
Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.
Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last -- far off -- at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.
Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat ...
I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.
And at the closing of the day She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away, The Lady of Shallot.
My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.
Forerun thy peers, thy time, and let Thy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet.
Virtue - to be good and just - Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell. - The Vision of Sin
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
