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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so...more

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

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Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of me...more

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In moments like these, offering up his heart at the hour that night flowers offer up their perfume, lit up like a lamp in the middle of the starry nig...more

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The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

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He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.

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What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and ...more

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What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and ...more

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To write the poem of the human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it only of the most infamous of men, would be to swallow up all epics in...more

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The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God's theater free; he sees the sky...more

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There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures multiply and des...more