Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings!
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses a longing for beauty and inspiration from a divine source.
In this quote, John Keats evokes a vision of a celestial being descending from the heavens, illuminating the sky with a dazzling display of light. It reflects the poet's desire for a connection to sublime beauty and inspiration, suggesting that such experiences elevate the human spirit and ignite creativity.
Themes
BeautyInspirationPoetryHeavenNature
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a poetry reading to emphasize the beauty found in nature and the divine.
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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.
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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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