More from John Keats
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John KeatsJohn Keats Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John KeatsJohn Keats If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
John KeatsJohn Keats The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
John KeatsJohn Keats Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
John KeatsJohn Keats My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
John KeatsJohn Keats A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
John KeatsJohn Keats Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
John KeatsJohn Keats Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
John KeatsJohn Keats If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
John KeatsJohn Keats The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
John KeatsJohn Keats The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
John KeatsJohn Keats 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!
John KeatsJohn Keats To stay youthful, stay useful.
John KeatsJohn Keats I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
John KeatsJohn Keats You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
John KeatsJohn Keats
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
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Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don’t want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.
Deontay WilderDeontay Wilder When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don’t appreciate it.
Betty WhiteBetty White By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
William McKinleyWilliam McKinley The bottom line is, I’m blessed with good health. On top of that, I don’t go around thinking ‘Oh, I’m 90, I better do this or I better do that.’ I’m just Betty. I’m the same Betty that I’ve always been. Take it or leave it.
Betty WhiteBetty White I have been blessed to be born and brought up in Uttarakhand, in the midst of all that snow, plus pure and divine environment.
Urvashi RautelaUrvashi Rautela I am blessed to have a mother like mine. She is the greatest mother in the world.
Urvashi RautelaUrvashi Rautela The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII