"I cannot see what flowers are at my……" — John Keats
"I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet."
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John Keats
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327 Quotes by John Keats
John Keats has 327 quotes on this site.
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
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I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again...
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Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.
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As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I…
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A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands…
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Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I…
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek…
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
— Unknown Author
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Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a…
— Francis Bacon
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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State…
— Jonathan Swift
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Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak…
— Edwin Markham
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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
— William C. Bryant
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
— Edmund Waller
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But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping…
— William Shakespeare
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One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with…
— Wallace Stevens
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I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great…
— Diego Rivera
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Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.
— Andrew Marvell
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