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.
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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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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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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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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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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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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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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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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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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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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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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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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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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