172 Quotes About English-poet

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.