I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
JOHN KEATSThe 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.
More John Keats Quotes
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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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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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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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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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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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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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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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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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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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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