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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.

John Keats

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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Expression Forever Gold Myself Silence Talk Time
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
Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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Flower Growth Land Man
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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Forever Silence Thinking
Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
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Leaving Rose Togetherness
Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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Dance Flower Myself Soul Steal
I don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever.
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Myself Need Night Shine Stars Yourself
The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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Bright Creature Eyes Purpose
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
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Chance Face Hands Live Magic Night Romance Thinking
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
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Beautiful Breathe Dreams Health Joy Love Quiet Sleep
To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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One Liner Repeat Silence
And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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Art Bed Flower Head Myself
I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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Day Myself World Writing
Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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Fragile Life Tree Way
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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Beautiful One Liner Truth
Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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Death Love Myself Religion
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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Heart Love Myself Nature Relationship Togetherness Yourself
I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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Death Faith Love Myself Togetherness Touch Yourself
Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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Better Human Nature View
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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Creation Dreams Life Suffering Wake Up
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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Beautiful Earth Need Truth Yourself
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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Kiss Live Love Misery Myself Soul Thankful
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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Dreams Fans Heaven Madness Paradise
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 wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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Focus Happiness Invention Myself Taste Yourself
Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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Bliss End Kiss Soft Vow
You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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Break Company Death Hurt Love Myself Pain Togetherness Yourself

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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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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