Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
JOHN KEATSI will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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The air is all softness.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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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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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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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.
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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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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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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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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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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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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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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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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host’s Canary wine?
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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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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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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