With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
JOHN KEATSFailure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
More John Keats Quotes
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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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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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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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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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
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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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