But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
JOHN KEATSEverything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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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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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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