Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
JOHN KEATSWith a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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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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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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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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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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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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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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