I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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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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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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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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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
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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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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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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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