The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
JOHN KEATSLife is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
More John Keats Quotes
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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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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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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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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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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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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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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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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 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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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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