I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
JOHN KEATSYou are always new to me.
More John Keats Quotes
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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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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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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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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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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Death is Life’s high meed.
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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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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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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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