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.
JOHN KEATSShe press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
More John Keats Quotes
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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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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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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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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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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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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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There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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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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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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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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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
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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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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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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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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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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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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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Death is Life’s high meed.
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