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“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.”

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

“The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”

“She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. ”