A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
JOHN KEATSIf poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
More John Keats Quotes
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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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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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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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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I don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever.
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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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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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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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.
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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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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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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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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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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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