Romantic Poets

Quotes from poets of the Romantic genre.

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...and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover. - Poe 2/2

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The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world... - Poe 1/2

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. - P. Shelley

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I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice. - P. Shelley

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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. - P. Shelley

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It is our will that thus enchains us to permitted ill. - P. Shelley

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The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves. - P. Shelley

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The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar... - Wordsworth

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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. - Wordsworth

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The world is too much with us; late and soon... - Wordsworth

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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. - Victor Hugo

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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo

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Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n. - Milton

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What matter where, if I be still the same, and what should I be, but less than he whom Thunder hath made greater? - Milton [2/2]

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. - Milton [1/2]

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They told me that I had five senses to enclose me up; and they enclos'd my infinite brain into a narrow circle... - Blake

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Who so loves, believes the impossible. - Browning

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Poe

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I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination. - Keats

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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people... and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the Burden of the Mystery... - Keats