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 KEATSThe excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
More John Keats Quotes
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Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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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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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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Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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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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And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
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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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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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