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 don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever
Interpretation
The speaker values their loved one more than any material or celestial possessions.
This quote expresses a profound appreciation for personal connections over external wonders. The speaker conveys that true treasure lies in the companionship of a loved one, highlighting the importance of love and presence rather than material wealth or distant beauty.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a wedding speech to emphasize the value of love over material wealth.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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?
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.
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
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
...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.
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.
Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.
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