A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

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I have so much of you in my heart.

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I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever

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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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The 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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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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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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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

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