World Famous Quotes by World Famous People.
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I
mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no
more.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin
from emotion recollected in tranquility.
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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the
mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
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There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To
meditative spleen a grateful feast.
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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the
honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or
hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own
sweet will. Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is
lying still.
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