With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf 's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine.John Keats
Yet it is strange, and sad, alas!
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I cannot quell
Its heavy pressure, and will press at least
My lips to thine, that they may richly feast
Until we taste the life of love again.
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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
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Behold
The clear religion of heaven!
John Keats
Where youth grows pale, and specter-thin, and dies.
John Keats
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