Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
JOHN KEATSThe 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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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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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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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
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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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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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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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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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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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