Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATSDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATSThe day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
JOHN KEATSYou are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
JOHN KEATSThe air is all softness.
JOHN KEATSI wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
JOHN KEATSI wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
JOHN KEATSScenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
JOHN KEATSI must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
JOHN KEATSWhat is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
JOHN KEATSI will clamber through the clouds and exist.
JOHN KEATSTouch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
JOHN KEATSLike a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
JOHN KEATSAll writing is a form of prayer.
JOHN KEATSNothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
JOHN KEATSBut the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
JOHN KEATSWhen I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
JOHN KEATS