Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
JOHN KEATSThe poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
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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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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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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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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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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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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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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The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
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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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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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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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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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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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