Books are the best type of the influence of the past.
Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.
I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge