You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
JOHN KEATSLike a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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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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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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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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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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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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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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All writing is a form of prayer.
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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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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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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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