Quotes from Keats

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

Beauty is truth, truth is beauty that is all ye know on earth, and all Yee need to know.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
The scenery is fine –but human nature is finer.
Life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way from a tree’s summit.
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days–three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

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629 – Liquid Sunshine

Rain

Shattering the bounds of space
Came the rain;
The hills are rent
And the waters burst and leap and sweep in a mad race.
The wind beats like a fiend of pain;
The world reels and is bent
Lightning leaps in a clap,
And the sea
Dashes its main against Heaven’s dome;
The clouds break and rumble
The wind tears at the sky as a trap
And the sky beats a tattoo and laughs in a mad spree
The corners of space crumble
Oh, the mighty rain
The universe quivers and shakes
And lo the snake
That bears the earth, hoods uplifter, springs again
Space hills leap
And in the sky, tumult of the Devas breaks
Into a mad sports where live flames crash awake
Behold time and the elements dance in a sweep
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