Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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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You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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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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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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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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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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All writing is a form of prayer.
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The air is all softness.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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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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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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