“Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.”

“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”

“Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream. ”

“I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.”

“To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon in death.”

“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.”

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