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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 14 May 1904.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Stevens, Wallace. Letter to Irita Van Doren. 20 Sept. 1954.

Only one being is wanting, and your whole world is bereft of people.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Les Meditations Poetiques

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De Lamartine, Alphonse. "L'Isolement [Isolation]." Recueillements poétiques [Poetic Meditations]. Paris: Imp P. Didot L'aine, 1820.

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Keats, John. "To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent." Poems. London: C. & J. Ollier, 1817, I. 1.

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Keats, John. "To one who has been long in city pent." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

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Auden, W. H. "The Protestant Mystics." Forewords and Afterwords. Random House/Faber and Faber, 1973.

Love's pleasure lasts but a moment;
Love's sorrow lasts all through life.

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

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De Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris. Celestine. 1784.

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Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742-1745, Night 1, I. 390.

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Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 1, I. 390.

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Brooks, Gwendolyn. "Exhaust the Little Moment." Annie Allen. Harper & Brothers, 1949.

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Brecht, Bertolt. Die Dreigroschenoper [The Threepenny Opera]. 31 Aug. 1928, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany, act 2, sc. 6.

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Brecht, Bertolt. The Threepenny Opera. Grove Press, 1994, act 2, sc. 6.

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Keats, John. Letter to Fanny Brawne. 13 Oct. 1819.

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Keats, John. "Letter to Fanny Brawne, October 13, 1819." The Selected Letters of John Keats, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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Keats, John. Letter to Benjamin Bailey. 22 Nov. 1817.

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Keats, John. "Benjamin Bailey 22 November 1817." John Keats: Selected Letters, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Love…that cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown
To make the nauseous draught of life go down.

John Wilmot

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Wilmot, John. A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country. London, c. 1680.

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Wilmot, John. "A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country." The Complete Works of John Wilmot. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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Shakespeare, William. Antony and Cleopatra. King's Men, c. 1607, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Antony and Cleopatra." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 3.

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Pope, Alexander. "Summer: The Second Pastoral, or Alexis." Poetical Miscellanies. London: Jacob Tonson, 1709, I. 73.

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Pope, Alexander. "Pastorals." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 73.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Part 3. London: Thomas Millington, 1595, act 2, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Third Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

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Hood, Thomas. "Ode: Autumn." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

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Hood, Thomas. "Ode: Autumn." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

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Sidney, Philip. The New Arcadia. London, 1590.

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Sidney, Philip. "The New Arcadia." Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford University Press, 2009.

As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face.

Joseph Campbell (poet)

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Campbell, Joseph. "The Old Woman." Irishry. Maunsel & Company, 1913, st. 1.

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Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera. 1728, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1, air 21.

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Gay, John. "The Beggar's Opera." The Beggar's Opera and Polly, edited by Hal Gladfelder. Oxford University Press, 2013, act 2, sc. 1, air 21.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 106, st. 1.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009 pt. 106, st. 1.