A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
JOHN KEATSTo stay youthful, stay useful.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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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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I have so much of you in my heart.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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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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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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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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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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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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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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