Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
JOHN KEATS
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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Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
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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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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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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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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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You are always new to me.
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
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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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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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I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
JOHN KEATS