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.
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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Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host’s Canary wine?
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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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All writing is a form of prayer.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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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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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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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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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.
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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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