Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John KeatsRead
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects a deep appreciation for love paired with a contemplation of mortality.
In this quote, John Keats expresses a profound longing to simultaneously cherish the beauty of his loved one and confront the inevitability of death. It captures the essence of human experience, where love and mortality are intertwined, prompting a desire to hold onto precious moments with loved ones even in the face of life's transience.
Themes
LoveMortalityLongingBeautyTransience
In practice
Example use cases
During a toast at a wedding, highlighting the significance of cherishing love.
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All quotes →Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
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Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me —write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair.
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Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
John KeatsRead
...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.
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