My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
JOHN KEATSA man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
More John Keats Quotes
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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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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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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