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Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

John Keats

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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?
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When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain.
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Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.
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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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How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.
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... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before 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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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty . . .
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Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches little space they stop But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.
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