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 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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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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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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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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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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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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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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