Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
JOHN KEATSTis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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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Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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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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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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