I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
JOHN KEATSBright 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.
More John Keats Quotes
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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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Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.
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Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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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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What is more gentle than a wind is summer?
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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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I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
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O aching time! O moments big as years!
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Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
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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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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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