Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Quote by John Keats

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Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy...

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy...

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty...

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

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

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He...

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He...

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...

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...

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! -...

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! -...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty...

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.

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...

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to...

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to...

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all...

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all...

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...

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does...

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does...

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...

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer...

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer...

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...