If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATSNothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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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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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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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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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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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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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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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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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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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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