My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
JOHN KEATSWhatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
More John Keats Quotes
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
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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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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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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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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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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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You are always new to me.
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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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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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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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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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