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A perfect Woman; nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.
----William Wordsworth
Very nice. I am enjoying these far more than people posting one character replies or the word shit over and over.
Thanks. These are all my favourite lines. I've studied all of them, taught some of them at some point.
If you're enjoying them too, my intention of curating them is fulfilled!
TBH, As a poetry lover, I just wanted to revise my favourite poets and I'll end up creating a long thread which I'll just read whenever I wanna enjoy some finest of poetry.
She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
How does he love me?
With adoration, with fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Before me floats an image, man or shade,
Shade more than man, more image than a shade;
For Hades' bobbin bound in mummy-cloth
May unwind the winding path;
A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
Breathless mouths may summon;
("Byzantium")
---W.B. Yeats
Hearts are not to be had as a gift, hearts are to be earned.
---W.B. Yeats
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
---William Blake
Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
---William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.
Ah! she did depart!
----William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
---William Blake
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances,
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And is anxious in its sleep. . . .
---William Butler Yeats
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two
Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
---W.B. Yeats
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
----William Blake
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
---William Butler Yeats
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
---William Blake
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite & flatterer..
---William Blake
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold
And commerce settles on every tree
---William Blake
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.
----William Blake
Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
---William Blake
And in Life's noisiest hour,
There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,
The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.
----Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems
We become what we behold.
---William Blake
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I water'd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears;
And I sunnéd it with smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,
And into my garden stole,
When the night had veil'd the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.
---William Blake
A great mind must be androgynous.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves.
----William Wordsworth
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
----Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The excellence of every art is its intensity.
---John Keats
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
----William Wordsworth
Party men always hate a slightly differing friend more than a downright enemy.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
----John Milton, Paradise Lost
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches.
----Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
---William Wordsworth
Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-----T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Which tells me, Youth's no longer here!
O Youth! for years so many and sweet,
'Tis known that Thou and I were one,
I'll think it but a fond conceit--
It cannot be that Thou art gone!
----Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
----John Milton , Areopagitica
Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
----Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
----samuel taylor coleridge
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
-----Lord Byron
Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.
----Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.
-----John Milton, Paradise Regained
“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else."
---Epictetus
Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.
----John Milton, Paradise Lost
Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.
----Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
----T.S. Eliot
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
---John Milton
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
-----Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
-----Robert Browning, Men and Women