Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
JOHN KEATSEven bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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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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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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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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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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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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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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