I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
JOHN KEATSWhere the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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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.
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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.
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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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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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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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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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You are always new to me.
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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