What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
JOHN KEATSTo stay youthful, stay useful.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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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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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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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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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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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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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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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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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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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
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You are always new to me.
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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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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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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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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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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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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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