If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATSBut the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
More John Keats Quotes
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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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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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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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.
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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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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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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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.
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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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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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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