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.
JOHN KEATSI 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.
More John Keats Quotes
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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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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All writing is a form of prayer.
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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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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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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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If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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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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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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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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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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I don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever.
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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