But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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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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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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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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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?
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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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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
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I want a brighter word than bright.
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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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 have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
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