QUOTES by John Keats
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
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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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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories.
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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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And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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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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I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.
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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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I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.
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--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
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When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.
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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath;
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.
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Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
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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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But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings!
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I 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.
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Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream.
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No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.
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...yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits.
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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time / I have been half in love with easeful Death...
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Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
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