All writing is a form of prayer.
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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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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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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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You are always new to me.
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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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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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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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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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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 love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
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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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