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.
JOHN KEATSAn 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.
More John Keats Quotes
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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I must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
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You are always new to me.
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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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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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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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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
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Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
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When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
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Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
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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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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
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