I want a brighter word than bright.
JOHN KEATS
As 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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I want a brighter word than bright.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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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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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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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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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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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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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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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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