I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
JOHN KEATSWe read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
More John Keats Quotes
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
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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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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
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If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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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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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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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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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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One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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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 want a brighter word than bright.
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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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