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?
JOHN KEATSWhatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
More John Keats Quotes
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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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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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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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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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 would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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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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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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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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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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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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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Death is Life’s high meed.
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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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