Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
George William CurtisA tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.
George William CurtisHeroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
George William Curtis