"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
-John Keats
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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.“
-John Keats
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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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"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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"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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"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
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