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More Quotes by John Keats
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.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Stop and consider! life is but a day
To silence gossip, don't repeat it.
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
All writing is a form of prayer.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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.
A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
