I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
JOHN KEATSOne of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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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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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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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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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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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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The air is all softness.
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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 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!
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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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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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