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?
JOHN KEATSTouch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
More John Keats Quotes
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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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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 mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for 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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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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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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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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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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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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