I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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 will clamber through the clouds and exist.
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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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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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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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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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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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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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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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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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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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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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