Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
JOHN KEATSAs 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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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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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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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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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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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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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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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Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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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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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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