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.
JOHN KEATSHow does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
More John Keats Quotes
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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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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Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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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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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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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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I have so much of you in my heart.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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