. . . I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, … - John Keats

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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

John Keats

. . . I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.

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A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

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When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.

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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

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Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit

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Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.

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