Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
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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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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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 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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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
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To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
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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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