The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
JOHN KEATSWhat is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
More John Keats Quotes
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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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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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
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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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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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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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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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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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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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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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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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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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You are always new to me.
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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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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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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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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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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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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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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 must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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