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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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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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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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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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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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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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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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 air is all softness.
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