How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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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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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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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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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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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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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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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.
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There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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