The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
JOHN KEATSMy love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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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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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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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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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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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