John Keats on imagination
“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
John KeatsJohn Keats Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
John KeatsJohn Keats Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
John KeatsJohn Keats To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
John KeatsJohn Keats What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
John KeatsJohn Keats She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
John KeatsJohn Keats I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
John KeatsJohn Keats What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
John KeatsJohn Keats The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
John KeatsJohn Keats An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
John KeatsJohn Keats Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
John KeatsJohn Keats Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
John KeatsJohn Keats There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
John KeatsJohn Keats That which is creative must create itself.
John KeatsJohn Keats With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John KeatsJohn Keats I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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If I didn’t have the ends, I wouldn’t have so many imaginary friends.
Travis ScottTravis Scott Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes I am a woman who came from witches those they tried to burn came rising higher than ever imagined and I am a woman who has this power behind me with every step.
Payton Olivia WPayton Olivia W When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.
Louis PasteurLouis Pasteur Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern
David HumeDavid Hume Your imagination gives your dreams a direction!
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