If I should die', said I to myself, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.'
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So reclineUpon these living flowers.
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The ancient harps have said,
Love never dies, but lives, immortal Lord:
If Love impersonate was ever dead,
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John Keats
What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.
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They shall be accounted poet kings Who simply tell the most heart-easing things.
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But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.
John Keats
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