As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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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.
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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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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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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