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Many have original minds who do not think it — they are led away by custom — Now it appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own citadel.

— John Keats Letters (1817)

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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Poems (1820)

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Epitaph for himself (1821)

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.

Letters (1817)

Call the world if you please "The vale of soul-making."

Letters (1817)

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

Letters (1817)

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