If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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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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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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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 am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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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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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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