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Doth Nature know our dream, or is the mind
A passing breath her beauty leaves behind?

— Thomas Gordon Hake

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A poem, of whatever length, should start vividly, so as to wind up the ear and set the mind ticking.

It may be boasted that free-trade in physic came before free-trade in corn, and from that time medical science began to flourish in this country.

I thought no one ever could paint a woman's eyes like Rossetti. There was a softness, a delicacy, a life, a soul in them, never seen elsewhere, but in living beings, and that how rarely!

The more a writer deviates from simplicity, the less sincere he appears.

Nothing that has been and has died out, will be revived. The skeleton, an osseous Apollo, will remain, and that is all.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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