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John Keats - From the Aging category:
...I have fears that I may cease to be before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain... (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Beauty category:
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Beauty category:
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Beginning category:
There is an old saying 'well begun is half done' – 'tis a bad one. I would use instead – Not begun at all until half done. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Depression category:
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Desire category:
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Drunkenness category:
O for a draught of vintage! that hath been / Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Excellence category:
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Experience category:
Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced – even a proverb is no proverb to you until your life has illustrated it. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Experience category:
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Failure category:
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true... (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Fame category:
Then on the shore / Of the wide world / I stand alone, and think / Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Friendship category:
My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Gender category:
I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Imagination category:
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Imagination category:
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination – what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Indolence category:
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Listening category:
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Love category:
Love is my religion – I could die for that. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Music category:
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Poetry category:
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Poetry category:
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Poetry category:
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Recognition category:
Here lies one whose name was writ in water. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Religion category:
My religion is love – I could die for that. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Senses category:
O for a life of sensations rather that of thoughts! (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Subject category:
Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer. (John Keats)
John Keats - From the Truth category:
I can never feel certain of any truth but from a clear perception of its beauty. (John Keats)
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