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What I love best are his letters. I tried reading his poem Hyperion but I got lost.
For four years one of my purposes for reading so much is to train myself to really understand this poem.
"... May there not be superior beings amused with any graceful, though instinctive attitude my mind may fall into, as I am entertained with the alertness of a Stoat or the anxiety of a Deer? Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine
... By a superior being our reasonings may take the same tone - though erroneous they may be fine - This is the very thing in which consists poetry..."
- John Keats, in a letter to his brother.
"The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream - he awoke and found it truth."
- John Keats, in a letter to a friend.
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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