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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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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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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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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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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You are always new to me.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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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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