I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
JOHN KEATSBeauty is truth, truth beauty.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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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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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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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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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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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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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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The air is all softness.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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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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