With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
JOHN KEATSLike a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
More John Keats Quotes
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The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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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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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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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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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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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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