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

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

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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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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and 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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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

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I have so much of you in my heart.

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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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