"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not"
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"An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery."
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"I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you."
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"Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir."
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"My creed is love and you are its only tenet."
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"Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves."
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"Philosophy will clip an angel's wings."
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"Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown."
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"Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?"
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"But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed."
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"Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience."
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"I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever."
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"When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance."
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"In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade."
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"A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory."
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"I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?"
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"To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind."
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"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
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"Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away."
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"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."
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