The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
JOHN KEATSOne of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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