All writing is a form of prayer.
JOHN KEATSIs there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
More John Keats Quotes
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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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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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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When 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.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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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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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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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
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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 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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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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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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Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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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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You are always new to me.
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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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