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 KEATSAnd how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
JOHN KEATSThere is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
JOHN KEATSAnd when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
JOHN KEATSAll writing is a form of prayer.
JOHN KEATSWe have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
JOHN KEATSThe excellence of every Art is its intensity.
JOHN KEATSI wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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 KEATSHow does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
JOHN KEATSDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATSThe open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
JOHN KEATSHere 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.
JOHN KEATSI love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
JOHN KEATSThe creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
JOHN KEATSThe day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
JOHN KEATS