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A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

John Keats

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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
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Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.
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I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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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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You are always new to me.
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It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.
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The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
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Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
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All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.
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