I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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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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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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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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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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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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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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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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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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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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