John Keats quotes - page 6

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. (John Keats)
Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away. View quote
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I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter. View quote
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Alas! when passion is both meek and wild! View quote
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The air is all softness. View quote
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Already with thee! tender is the night. View quote
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I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence. View quote
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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. View quote
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I find I cannot exist without Poetry. View quote
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance". View quote
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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. (John Keats)
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes. View quote
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As though a rose should shut and be a bud again. View quote
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Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain, Inconstant, childish, proud, and full of fancies. View quote
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E'en like the passage of an angel's tear That falls through the clear ether silently. View quote
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast. View quote
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And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon. View quote
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Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toil me back from thee to my sole self! View quote
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So many, and so many, and such glee. View quote
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They will explain themselves - as all poems should do without any comment. View quote
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To his sight The husk of natural objects opens quite To the core; and every secret essence there Reveals the elements of good and fair; Making him see, where Learning hath no light. (John Keats)
She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around, At glaring watch, perhaps, with ready spears - Down the wide stairs a darkling way they found. - In all the house was heard no human sound. A chain-droop'd lamp was flickering by each door; The arras, rich with horseman, hawk, and hound, Flutter'd in the besieging wind's uproar; And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor. View quote
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Call the world if you please "The vale of soul-making." View quote
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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? View quote
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Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies. View quote
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