Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATSHow does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
More John Keats Quotes
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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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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.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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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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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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You are always new to me.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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