If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATSLand and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
More John Keats Quotes
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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You are always new to me.
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The air is all softness.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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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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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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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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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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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.
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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