What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
JOHN KEATSShe press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
More John Keats Quotes
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
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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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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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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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The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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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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