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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats

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.
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Earth Nature Ourselves Play Sea Sky
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
JOHN KEATS

Body Mindset Myself Oneself
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

Cry Flower Sleep Tears Young
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Imagination Monk Myself Temple
You are always new to me.
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Love Relationship Yourself
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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Affection Heart Holy Imagination Myself Truth
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
The air is all softness.
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One Liner Soft
What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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One Liner Summer Wind
The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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Feeling Healing
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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Bright Grace Kiss Smile Sweet 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
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
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Beautiful Death Friendship Immortal Memories Myself Principle Proud Remember Time Work
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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Deep Melody Sweet
Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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Death Love Myself Religion
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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Experience Illustration Life Reality Yourself

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