You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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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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I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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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.
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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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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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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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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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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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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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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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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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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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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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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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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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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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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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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