What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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That which is creative must create itself.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
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There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
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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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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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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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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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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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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 think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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