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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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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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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To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

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Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

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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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I have so much of you in my heart.

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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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All writing is a form of prayer.

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