Tag: John Keats
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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?
John Keats
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats
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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John Keats
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John Keats
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
John Keats
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
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Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
John Keats
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats
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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats