Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
JOHN KEATSSouls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host’s Canary wine?
More John Keats Quotes
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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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The air is all softness.
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You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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