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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

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The poetry of the earth is never dead.

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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

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Love is my religion - I could die for it.

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O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings.

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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

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Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

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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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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

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She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.

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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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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

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O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

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I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

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