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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?

John Keats

Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
JOHN KEATS

Mindset Original Thinking
If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
JOHN KEATS

Leaving Natural Poetry Tree
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
JOHN KEATS

Avoid Care Experience Mistake
How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
JOHN KEATS

Man Poet Power Talk
There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
JOHN KEATS

Bad Beginning Myself Old
Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
JOHN KEATS

Encouragement Experience Failure Positive
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
JOHN KEATS

Imagination Monk Myself Temple
I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
JOHN KEATS

Beautiful Love Principle
Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
JOHN KEATS

Cry Flower Sleep Tears Young
Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
JOHN KEATS

Leaving Rose Togetherness
I want a brighter word than bright.
JOHN KEATS

Bright Myself Word
I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
JOHN KEATS

Day Myself World Writing
The air is all softness.
JOHN KEATS

One Liner Soft
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
JOHN KEATS

Failure Greatness Myself
A 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.
JOHN KEATS

Beautiful Breathe Dreams Health Joy Love Quiet Sleep
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
JOHN KEATS

Myself Place Soul Tears World

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