My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
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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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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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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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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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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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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You are always new to me.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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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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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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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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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 don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever.
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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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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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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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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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