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And should have been most happy, – but I saw
Too far into the sea, where every maw
The greater on the less feeds evermore. –

— John Keats Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds (1818)

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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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