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That which is creative must create itself.

John Keats

The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
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Earth Nature Ourselves Play Sea Sky
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
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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Deep Melody Sweet
The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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Bright Creature Eyes Purpose
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
Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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Bird Divine Sing Truth
I want a brighter word than bright.
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Bright Myself Word
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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Beautiful Death Friendship Immortal Memories Myself Principle Proud Remember Time Work
If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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Leaving Natural Poetry Tree
The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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Art Excellence Inspirational Intense Motivational Myself One Liner
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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Happiness Live Love Myself Relationship Summer Yourself
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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Intelligence Necessary Pain Philosophy See Soul Trouble World
What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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Philosophy Poet Virtue
I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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Imagination Myself Prayer Stars
That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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One Liner Queen Secret
Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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Blessing Greatness Health Hope Live
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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Discover Failure Leadership Seek Success True
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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Feeling Full Poet Reading Writing
To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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One Liner Repeat Silence
One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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Imagination Mindset Mystery Oneself
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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Experience Reality
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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Beautiful Consider Greatness Poet
I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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Existence Feeling Habit Leadership Myself Reality
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
Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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Dreams Fantasy Herself Sea Soft Tremble
Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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Cruelty Happiness Pain Pleasure Visit
Death is Life’s high meed.
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Death Life One Liner

That which is creative must create itself.

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