Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATSI 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.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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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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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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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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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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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 must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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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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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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