Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
JOHN KEATSWhere the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
More John Keats Quotes
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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
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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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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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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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