Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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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 will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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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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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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The air is all softness.
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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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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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