Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATSI am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
More John Keats Quotes
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
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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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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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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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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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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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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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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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