We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
JOHN KEATSSouls 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?
More John Keats Quotes
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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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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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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You are always new to me.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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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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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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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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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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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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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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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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