How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
JOHN KEATSIf poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
More John Keats Quotes
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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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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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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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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All writing is a form of prayer.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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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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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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The air is all softness.
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One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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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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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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