She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies;... And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his sta...rry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,... dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
each new victim treads unfalteringly The never altered circuit of his fate,... Bringing twelve peers as witness Both to his starry rise and starry fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrate...s upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »