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 think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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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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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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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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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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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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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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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
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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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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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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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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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I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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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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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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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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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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