Scenery is fine — but human nature is finer.
Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: we read fine things but never feel them to the full.
Some think I have lost that poetical ardour and fire 'tis said I once had- the fact is, perhaps I have; but, instead of that, I hope
I shall substitute a more thoughtful and quiet power.
I shall substitute a more thoughtful and quiet power.
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man;
it cannot be matured by law and precept,but by sensation and watchfulness in itself.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced
Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.
Denounce as Man Must, but God will not back down nor forsake where Spiritual Growth In an age of anxiety sought to save birth right rest!
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