If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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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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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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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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I want a brighter word than bright.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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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 feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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