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CytatyJohn KeatsEnglish lyric poet (1795 - 1821)Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives. If I should die, 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. O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they? What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth. |
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