If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATS
The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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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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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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Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host’s Canary wine?
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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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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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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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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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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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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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.
JOHN KEATS