To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
JOHN KEATSSome say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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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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That which is creative must create itself.
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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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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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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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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 love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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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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The air is all softness.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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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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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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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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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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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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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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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
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