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?
JOHN KEATSDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
More John Keats Quotes
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
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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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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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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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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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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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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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