O aching time! O moments big as years!
JOHN KEATSWhen 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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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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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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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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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.
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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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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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