It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink.