If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATSYou cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
More John Keats Quotes
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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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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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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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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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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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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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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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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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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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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