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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.
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More Quotes by John Keats
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
To silence gossip, don't repeat it.
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.
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.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Stop and consider! life is but a day
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
