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“ Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ”

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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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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could die for you.My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

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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?

~ John Keats

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