If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
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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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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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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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
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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 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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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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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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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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.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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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 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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