If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATSIf something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
More John Keats Quotes
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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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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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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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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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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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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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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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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I want a brighter word than bright.
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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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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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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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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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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