The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
JOHN KEATSFailure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
More John Keats Quotes
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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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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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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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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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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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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All writing is a form of prayer.
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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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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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