Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
JOHN KEATSDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
More John Keats Quotes
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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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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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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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As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
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Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host’s Canary wine?
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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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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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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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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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I have so much of you in my heart.
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All writing is a form of prayer.
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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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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat 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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