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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

Love spends his all, and still hath store.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Could I love less, I should be happier now.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.

Every believer is God's miracle.

Music tells no truths.

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

Nature means Necessity.

Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.

Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.

Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.

I love night more than day--she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie.

Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets;and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,--under-makers.

Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them.

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.