I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
JOHN KEATSWhat shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
More John Keats Quotes
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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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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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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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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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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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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