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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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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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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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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And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
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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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