As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
JOHN KEATSWhat shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
More John Keats Quotes
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
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I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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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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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
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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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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
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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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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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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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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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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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Death is Life’s high meed.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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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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Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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I have so much of you in my heart.
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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
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The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
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