Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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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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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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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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All writing is a form of prayer.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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