Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
JOHN KEATSTis 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?
More John Keats Quotes
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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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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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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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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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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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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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