We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
JOHN KEATSWe read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
More John Keats Quotes
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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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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The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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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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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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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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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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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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