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Woman! When I behold thee

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Woman! When I behold thee flippant, vain, Inconstant, childish, proud, and full of fancies

Woman! When I Behold Thee, 1884

Was born on: 31.10.1795
About Author: English Romantic poet

My opinion of women

The opinion I have of the generality of women—who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.

Letter to george and Georgiana Keats, October 14, 1818

Test of invention

A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Oct. 8, 1817

Sleep and poetry

Stop and consider! Life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

Sleep and Poetry, 1884

Human life

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds, May 3, 1818

Fanatics

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave A paradise for a sect

The Fall of Hyperion

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