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That which is creative must create itself.

John Keats

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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
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Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.
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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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As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- Speech is silvern, Silence is golden or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!
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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.
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