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.
JOHN KEATSThe day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
More John Keats Quotes
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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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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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
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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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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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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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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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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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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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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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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.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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