I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
JOHN KEATSEven bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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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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What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
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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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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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