Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATSFanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
More John Keats Quotes
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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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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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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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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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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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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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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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