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.
JOHN KEATSStop and consider! life is but a day
More John Keats Quotes
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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The air is all softness.
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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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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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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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The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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