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.
JOHN KEATSI almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
More John Keats Quotes
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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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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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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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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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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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I don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever.
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The air is all softness.
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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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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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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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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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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, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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