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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

John Keats

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATS

Intelligence Necessary Pain Philosophy See Soul Trouble World
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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Myself Place Soul Tears World
Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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Flower Growth Land Man
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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Freedom Kill Liberty Love Memories Talk Touch
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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Forever Silence Thinking
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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Art Beautiful Excellence Intense Relationship Truth
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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Believe I Love You Myself
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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Choice Death Drink Happiness Poet Soul Wine
You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
JOHN KEATS

Love Moments Myself Present Yourself
If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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Leaving Natural Poetry Tree
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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Music Stability World Yourself
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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Death Divorce Greatness Land Sea Separate Weakness
You are always new to me.
JOHN KEATS

Love Relationship Yourself
The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
JOHN KEATS

Earth Nature Ourselves Play Sea Sky
Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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Death Love Myself Religion
Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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Better Human Nature View

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

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