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?
JOHN KEATSThere is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
More John Keats Quotes
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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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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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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You are always new to me.
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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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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