Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
JOHN KEATSWhat shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
More John Keats Quotes
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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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The air is all softness.
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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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You are always new to me.
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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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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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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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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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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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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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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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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
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