Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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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Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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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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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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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 love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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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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Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host’s Canary wine?
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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The air is all softness.
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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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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