I want a brighter word than bright.
JOHN KEATSAll writing is a form of prayer.
More John Keats Quotes
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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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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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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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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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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel 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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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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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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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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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