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You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you!

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If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best governors o...more

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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

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For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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Love - a grave mental disease.

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The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is n...more

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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens l...more

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost...more

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Nor when love is of this disinterested sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is equal disgrace in being or not b...more

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...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (...more

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if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great nonsense of mortality, b...more

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if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great nonsense of mortality, b...more