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“If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“A clammy dew is beading on my brow,
At mere remembering her pale laugh, and curse.
“Ha! ha! Sir Dainty! there must be a nurse
Made of rose leaves and thistledown, express,
To cradle thee my sweet, and lull thee: yes,
I am too flinty-hard for thy nice touch:
My tenderest squeeze is but a giant’s clutch.”
― John Keats, Complete Works of John Keats

“John Gibson Lockhart, writing in Blackwood’s Magazine, described Endymion as “imperturbable drivelling idiocy”. With biting sarcasm, Lockhart advised, “It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop Mr John, back to plasters, pills, and ointment boxes”
― John Keats, Complete Works of John Keats

“yet I must not forget
Sleep, quiet with his poppy coronet:
For what there may be worthy in these rhymes
I partly owe to him:”
― John Keats, Complete Works of John Keats