That which is creative must create itself.
JOHN KEATSI have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
More John Keats Quotes
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Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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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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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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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 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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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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Death is Life’s high meed.
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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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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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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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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