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.
JOHN KEATSParting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
More John Keats Quotes
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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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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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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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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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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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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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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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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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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