Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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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You are always new to me.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
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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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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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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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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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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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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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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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