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.
JOHN KEATSI must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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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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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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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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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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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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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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