Souls 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?
JOHN KEATSMany have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
More John Keats Quotes
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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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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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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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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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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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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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