Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding…

Quote by John Keats

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When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe...

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe...

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who...

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who...

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms...

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms...

Health is my expected heaven.

Health is my expected heaven.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is...

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is...

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...

I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth...

I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth...

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my...

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my...

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of...

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of...

I wish to beleave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

I wish to beleave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which...

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which...

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour...

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour...

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the...

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the...

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Verse, Fame and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser - Death is Life's high...

Verse, Fame and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser - Death is Life's high...

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass...

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass...

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered...

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered...

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing,...

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing,...