| 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. |
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- 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. |
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- John Keats |
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| Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: 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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- John Keats |
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| The poetry of the earth is never dead. |
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- John Keats |
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| A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. |
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- John Keats |
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| Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave A paradise for a sect. |
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- John Keats |
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| Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir. |
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- John Keats |
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| Love is my religion - I could die for it. |
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- John Keats |
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| 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, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. |
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- John Keats |
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| Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. |
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- John Keats |
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