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.
JOHN KEATSThere is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
More John Keats Quotes
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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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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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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The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
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You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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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.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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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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Stop and consider! life is but a day
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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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