"A moment's thought is passion's passing knell."
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"Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?"
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"The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in."
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"I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death."
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"Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song."
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"You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."
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"Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees."
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"Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor."
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"Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world."
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"What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party."
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"I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss."
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"He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others. His intense mind and powerful feelings would, I truly believe, have done the world some service, had his life been spared but he was of too sensitive a nature and thus he was destroyed!"
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"The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead."
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"No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest."
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"Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink."
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"The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth."
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"No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest."
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"Works of genius are the first things in the world."
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"... Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved, And been well nurtured in his mother tongue."
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"I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me."
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