I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.


John Keats

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JOHN KEATS
Once upon a time, the American met the Automobile and fell in love. Unfortunately, this led him into...
JOHN KEATS
On a half-reapèd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares t...
JOHN KEATS
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
JOHN KEATS
I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fa...
JOHN KEATS
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
JOHN KEATS
Hard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
JOHN KEATS
Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us.
JOHN KEATS
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the high...
JOHN KEATS
And there I shut her wild, wild eyes / With kisses four.
JOHN KEATS
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a ...
JOHN KEATS
O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!
JOHN KEATS
When I behold, upon the night's starred face, / Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.
JOHN KEATS
I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination
JOHN KEATS
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lo...
JOHN KEATS
Mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.
JOHN KEATS
Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,/ Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart / Only to meet agai...
JOHN KEATS
Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star.
JOHN KEATS
Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss
JOHN KEATS
St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! / The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; / The hare lim...
JOHN KEATS
Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numb...
JOHN KEATS
I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespe...
JOHN KEATS
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I...
JOHN KEATS
Fairy Song
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep n...
JOHN KEATS
But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the...
JOHN KEATS