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The painter stood entranced before the work which he had wrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, "This is indeed Life ...

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Thank Heaven! the crisis — The danger, is past,...

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It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,...

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Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it "the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the v...

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All that we see or seen Is but a dream within a dream.

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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor....

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A lunatic may be

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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

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Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tall vault unfold—

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Nor had I erred in my calculations—nor had I endured in vain. I at length felt that I was free.

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Nor will this overwhelming tendency to do wrong for wrong's sake, admit of analysis, or resolution into ulterior elements. It is a radical, a ...

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She was a child and I was a child, In this kingdom by the sea,...

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If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her ...

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The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

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Semi-Saracenic architecture, sustaining itself as if by miracle in mid air; glittering in the red sunlight with a hundred oriels, minarets, an...

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As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with...

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The waves have now a redder glow— The hours are breathing faint and low—...

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To see distinctly the machinery—the wheels and pinions—of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are ...

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