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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

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A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

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I have so much of you in my heart.

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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

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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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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

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