Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Wine is only sweet to happy men.