We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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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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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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I don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever.
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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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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 would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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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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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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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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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat 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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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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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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