If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATSShed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
More John Keats Quotes
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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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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You are always new to me.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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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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Death is Life’s high meed.
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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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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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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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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Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
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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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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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