Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
JOHN KEATSWith a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
More John Keats Quotes
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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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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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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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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When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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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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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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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.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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