That which is creative must create itself.
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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She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
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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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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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But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
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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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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
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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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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
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Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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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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