Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
JOHN KEATSSouls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host’s Canary wine?
More John Keats Quotes
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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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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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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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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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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