I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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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I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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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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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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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.
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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You are always new to me.
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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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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 air is all softness.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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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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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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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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