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.
JOHN KEATSHow does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
More John Keats Quotes
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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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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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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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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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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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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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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