I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
JOHN KEATSWith a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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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.
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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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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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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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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
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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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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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