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Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
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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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’Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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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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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
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Love is my religion - I could die for it.
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
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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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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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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
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There is nothing stable in the world uproar’s your only music.
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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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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
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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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’Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.