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.
JOHN KEATSYou are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
More John Keats Quotes
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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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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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host’s Canary wine?
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