I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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 am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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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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The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
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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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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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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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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
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