It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

Quote by John Keats

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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers

Love is like the moon, when it does not increase, it decreases

Love is like the moon, when it does not increase, it decreases

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for...

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for...

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school...

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school...

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates...

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates...

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned...

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned...

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with...

Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with...

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the...

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the...

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever;...

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever;...

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read,...

Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read,...