If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATSEvery mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
More John Keats Quotes
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Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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That which is creative must create itself.
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
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I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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