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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

John Keats
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: 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...

John Keats

Beauty
3

Almost the highest bliss of human-kind, When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.

John Keats
4

Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

John Keats

Philanthropists
5

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

Beauty
6

Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow.

John Keats

Philosophers and Philosophy
7

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats

Adversity
8

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

John Keats

Uncategorised
9

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.

John Keats

Failure
10

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

John Keats

Pleasure
11

Health is my expected heaven.

John Keats

Health
12

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

John Keats

Music
13

I always made an awkward bow.

John Keats

Farewells
14

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

John Keats

Certainty
15

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

John Keats

Depression
16

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

John Keats

Independence
17

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

John Keats

Martyrdom
18

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

John Keats

Law and Lawyers
19

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom --one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

John Keats

Pride
20

I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.

John Keats

Popularity
21

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats

Failure
22

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

John Keats

Illusion
23

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

John Keats

Death and Dying
24

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

John Keats

Travel and Tourism
25

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

John Keats

Imagination
26

My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

John Keats

Laziness
27

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

John Keats

Experience
28

O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

John Keats

Birds
29

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

John Keats

Solitude
30

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

John Keats

Poetry and Poets
31

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

Poetry and Poets
32

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

Critics and Criticism
33

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

John Keats

Excellence
34

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

John Keats

Adolescence
35

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. Not a select party.

John Keats

Opinions
36

The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

John Keats

Public
37

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

John Keats

Family
38

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

Human nature
39

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

John Keats

Failure
40

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

John Keats

Security
41

There's a blush for won t, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

John Keats

Embarrassment
42

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

John Keats

Quarrels
43

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

John Keats

Solitude
44

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

John Keats

Truth
45

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

John Keats

Death and Dying
46

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

John Keats

Fame
47

Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!

John Keats

Sea

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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: 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...

Almost the highest bliss of human-kind, When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.

Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

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.

Health is my expected heaven.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

I always made an awkward bow.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom --one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

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.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

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. Not a select party.

The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

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.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

There's a blush for won t, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!