If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATSI wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
More John Keats Quotes
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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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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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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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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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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You are always new to me.
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There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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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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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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Souls 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?
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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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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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
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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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