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.
JOHN KEATSThrough the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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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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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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Death is Life’s high meed.
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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host’s Canary wine?
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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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