Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
JOHN KEATSIf poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
More John Keats Quotes
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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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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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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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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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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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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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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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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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That which is creative must create itself.
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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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