Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
JOHN KEATSWhatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
More John Keats Quotes
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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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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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat 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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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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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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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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