But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
JOHN KEATSWith a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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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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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
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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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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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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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