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"Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseenWithin thy airy shellBy slow Meander's margent green,And in the violet-imbroider'd valeWhere the love-lorn nightingaleNightly to thee her sad song mourneth well:Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pairThat likest thy Narcissus are?"
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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."
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"Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end."
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"Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."
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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."
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"And so sepAolchred in such pomp dost lie,That kings for such a tomb would wish to die."
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"To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable."
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