Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant |
Filled with mingled cream and amber I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chambers of my brain -- Quaintest thoughts -- queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today. |
From childhood's hour I have not been As others were--I have not seen As others saw. |
I am ugly. |
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. |
I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence |
I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence |
I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence |
I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence |
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. |
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. |
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. |
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty |
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- ''My Heart Laid Bare.'' But -- this little book must be true to its title. |
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. |