We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
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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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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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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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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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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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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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 wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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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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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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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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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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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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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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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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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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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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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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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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Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
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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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