Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
JOHN KEATSDeath is Life’s high meed.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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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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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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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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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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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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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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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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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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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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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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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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The air is all softness.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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