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 KEATSI wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
More John Keats Quotes
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
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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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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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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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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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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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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 man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
JOHN KEATS