There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
JOHN KEATSThe feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
More John Keats Quotes
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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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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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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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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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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I have so much of you in my heart.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host’s Canary wine?
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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
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You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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