Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
JOHN KEATSDeath is Life’s high meed.
More John Keats Quotes
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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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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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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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?
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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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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 wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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