Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

“I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if …”

“When by my solitary hearth I sit,When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” fli…”

“She dwells with Beauty--Beauty that must die: And Joy, whose hand is ever at hi…”

“O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!”