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.
JOHN KEATSIf poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
More John Keats Quotes
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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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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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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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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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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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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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As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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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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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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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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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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