If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATSIf 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.
More John Keats Quotes
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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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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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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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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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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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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All writing is a form of prayer.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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