Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
JOHN KEATSMy mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
More John Keats Quotes
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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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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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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Death is Life’s high meed.
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The 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.
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You are always new to me.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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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.
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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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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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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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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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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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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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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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You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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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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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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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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