When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
JOHN KEATSStop and consider! life is but a day
More John Keats Quotes
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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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You are always new to me.
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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
JOHN KEATS