Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
JOHN KEATSEvery fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
More John Keats Quotes
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Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
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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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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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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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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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I 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.
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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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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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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