We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
JOHN KEATSA 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.
More John Keats Quotes
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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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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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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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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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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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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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
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