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If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient...more

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Beauty is truth truth beauty.

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No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest.

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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

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Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

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The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.

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Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.

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Beauty is truth - truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.

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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 tr...more

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A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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The poetry of the earth is never dead.

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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.