“All are before me! I behold
The House, the Brotherhood austere!
— And what am I, that I am here? For rigorous teachers seized my youth,
And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire,
Show'd me the high, white star of Truth,
There bade me gaze, and there aspire.
Even now their whispers pierce the gloom:
What dost thou in this living tomb?”
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)
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English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… 1822–1888Related quotes

1960s, First court statement (1962)
Source: Hinds' Feet on High Places

The Confession (c. 452?)

Hérodiade.
Hérodiade (1898)
Context: I am alone in my monotonous country,
While all those around me live in the idolatry
Of a mirror reflecting in its depths serene
Herodiade, whose gaze is diamond keen...
O final enchantment! yes, I sense it, I am alone.

The Pillar of the Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/236/75.html, st. 1 (1833).

Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 5