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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
To silence gossip, don't repeat it.
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?
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
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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.
All writing is a form of prayer.
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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.
