An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
JOHN KEATSI have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
More John Keats Quotes
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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The air is all softness.
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If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
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As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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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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Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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You are always new to me.
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
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