Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
JOHN KEATSWhat shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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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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You are always new to me.
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for 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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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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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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The air is all softness.
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