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The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

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Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

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The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

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Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

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Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.

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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

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A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

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Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.

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The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

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The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

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The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

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Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?

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Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent

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