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.
JOHN KEATSMany have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
More John Keats Quotes
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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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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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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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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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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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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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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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Death is Life’s high meed.
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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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