With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
JOHN KEATSIf 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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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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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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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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