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.
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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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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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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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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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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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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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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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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I don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever.
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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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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