John Keats Quotes
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You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religionI have shuddered at it. I shudder no moreI could be martyred for my religionLove is my religionI could die for that.
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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, the gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow.
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In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time.
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'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.
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Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.
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Love is my religionI could die for it.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
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To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And though to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind.
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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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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
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And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.
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Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?
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Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!
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When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the grasshopper's--he takes the lead In summer luxury--he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
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There is a budding morrow in midnight.
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purifyso that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
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O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
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O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.
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Scenery is finebut human nature is finer.
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The Publica thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
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I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
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How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
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The poppies hung Dew-dabbed on their stalks.
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Failure ... is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven; We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.
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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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Now a soft kissAye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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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?
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.
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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain.
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No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
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He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
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Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself. O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers, What hides the body oft the mind discovers.
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Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.
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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
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You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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A drainless shower of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power; 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.
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And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds.
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And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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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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But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?
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You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."
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On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality--I wish to live with you forever.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
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Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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St Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold.
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel.
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