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 KEATSWe have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
More John Keats Quotes
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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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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You are always new to me.
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That which is creative must create itself.
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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
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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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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.
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I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
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Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
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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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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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Many have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
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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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