Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
JOHN KEATSWhen I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
More John Keats Quotes
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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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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I have so much of you in my heart.
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The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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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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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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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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When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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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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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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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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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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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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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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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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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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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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That which is creative must create itself.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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