Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
JOHN KEATSWhatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
More John Keats Quotes
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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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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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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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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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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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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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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I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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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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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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