"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature " — Gérard de Nerval

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

The poetry of the earth is never dead

Source: On the Grasshopper and Cricket (1816)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on

Source: In a Balcony (1855)

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

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