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.
JOHN KEATSThere is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
JOHN KEATSAn 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 KEATSI wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
JOHN KEATSAnd when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
JOHN KEATSWhen 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.
JOHN KEATSIs there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
JOHN KEATSIf poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATSNothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATSThe creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
JOHN KEATSA thing of beauty is a joy forever.
JOHN KEATSThat which is creative must create itself.
JOHN KEATSI 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.
JOHN KEATSThe day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
JOHN KEATSI will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
JOHN KEATSWe have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
JOHN KEATSA man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
JOHN KEATS