Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
JOHN KEATSAs the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
More John Keats Quotes
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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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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The air is all softness.
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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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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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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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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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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