John Keats on experience
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
John KeatsJohn Keats I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
John KeatsJohn Keats Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John KeatsJohn Keats Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
John KeatsJohn Keats How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
John KeatsJohn Keats My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
John KeatsJohn Keats You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
John KeatsJohn Keats Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
John KeatsJohn Keats Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
John KeatsJohn Keats The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
John KeatsJohn Keats And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
John KeatsJohn Keats Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
John KeatsJohn Keats Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
John KeatsJohn Keats But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
John KeatsJohn Keats I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
John KeatsJohn Keats Stop and consider! life is but a day
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Emily BockEmily Bock I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
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It’s been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don’t have to work.
Charlie MungerCharlie Munger Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.
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Sheleana AiyanaSheleana Aiyana Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.
Clark GableClark Gable In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.
Steven PressfieldSteven Pressfield The hardest part of living is experiencing death without dying.
Haley Ann WardHaley Ann Ward It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.
George LucasGeorge Lucas Each man believes only his experience.
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