"Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss."
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"Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering."
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"I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet."
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"Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest."
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"...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice."
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"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
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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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"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells."
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"That which is creative must create itself."
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"With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
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"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
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"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun."
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"There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it."
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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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"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
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"Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers."
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"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
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"'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?"
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"You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest."
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"Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer."
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