Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
JOHN KEATSThe excellence of every Art is its intensity.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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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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If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
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Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated 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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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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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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Death is Life’s high meed.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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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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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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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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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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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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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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