I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
JOHN KEATSWhat shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
More John Keats Quotes
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
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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?
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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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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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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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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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