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And for her eyes: what could such eyes do there
But weep, and weep, that they were born so fair?

— John Keats Poems (1820)

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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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