Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
JOHN KEATSScenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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The air is all softness.
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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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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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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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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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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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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 are always new to me.
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To stay youthful, stay useful.
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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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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All writing is a form of prayer.
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