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 KEATSI have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
More John Keats Quotes
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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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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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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The air is all softness.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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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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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.
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Death is Life’s high meed.
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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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