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.
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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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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Death is Life’s high meed.
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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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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
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Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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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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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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