The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

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I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever

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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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To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

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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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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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Stop and consider! life is but a day

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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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All writing is a form of prayer.

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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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