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 will clamber through the clouds and exist.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote expresses a desire to rise above challenges and simply be alive.
John Keats conveys a sense of perseverance and the human spirit's ability to push through obstacles. By stating he will 'clamber through the clouds,' he suggests that despite difficulties, he aims to achieve existence and find joy in being alive.
Themes
ExistenceCloudsPerseveranceLifeInspiration
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about overcoming adversity, one might say, 'As John Keats once wrote, I will clamber through the clouds and exist.'
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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 β make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me βwrite 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.
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...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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