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 KEATSHeard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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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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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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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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I don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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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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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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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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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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