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.
John Keats
Related Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wo... JOHN KEATS Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wor... JOHN KEATS Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wor... JOHN KEATS Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almos... JOHN KEATS Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on. J.D. SALINGER A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as strippe... CAMILLE PAGLIA In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a... ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm... SUPERNA BATHEJA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES They swear to you by Allah that they might please you and, Allah, as well as His Apostle, has a grea... QURAN This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the r... SALVATORE QUASIMODO How do you know about the world is real?... How?... How you don't think that you are locke... DEYTH BANGER When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. SARA ZARR The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They ... F. SIONIL JOSE A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine bu... ROBERTSON DAVIES And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're ... HIRO FUJIWARA When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of... L. LIONEL KENDRICK History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO We should be ready for a change. DEYTH BANGER All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detac... ROBERT ANTON WILSON It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures... GEORGE ELIOT It should not be smoked like a cigarette, and it should not be smoked in a disco. It's just like at ... ALVIN LEUNG Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn ... NANCY KRESS She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Poetry is as vital as ever. The teaching of poetry reading, however, is sluggish and, often, slovenl... PAUL MULDOON I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones NELSON MANDELA You should be able to strip a man naked and throw him out with nothing on him. By the end of the day... RICK RESCORLA A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the ... AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fa... MATHIEU KEREKOU Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me... Otherwis... MARYUM AHSAM I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect... CRISS JAMI You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I tried to think of a vice I want to sacrifice, and ended up reasoning that I need my bad habits, de... SARA BAUME I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really ... ALEXANDRA FULLER First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions... SAINT BASIL Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence,... JAMES ALLEN Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a
being of power, intelligence,... JAMES ALLEN I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I pl... ERIN MORGENSTERN A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. KAREN ARMSTRONG History is replete with blunders written by sycophants. TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser knees, by the callosities ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. Memory and imagination help [a man] as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the ... WILLIAM MORRIS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening t... SARA BAUME Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. RONALD REAGAN My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and ... SARA BAUME Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES A wise man should not reveal his loss of wealth, the vexation of his mind, the misconduct of his own... CHANAKYA You don' know how bizarre it is to see Goyle thinking. J.K. ROWLING That is why we will end the hunger strike, but it should not be forgotten that it was a warning to t... ADNAN AGCA As gold is tested in four ways by rubbing, cutting, heating and beating -- so a man should be tested... CHANAKYA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing BLAISE PASCAL It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own
proportion and standard. UNKNOWN Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE Keep a good ship,' his father had always said, and by that you should run your company, and your fam... MATT SUDDAIN It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience ... DAVID WROBLEWSKI Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident. PHILIP CROSBY Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and l... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The Fever Bird The fever bird sand out last night. I could not sleep, try as I might... VIKRAM SETH Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya..... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As much as possible decisions should be made by; individuals, families, communities, state’s and s... KEN O. ELDIB The director of the Road Safety Authority comes on the radio to tell me that today is the day of the... SARA BAUME Everything is very nearly over. And so none of the normal rules of behavior apply. And so none of my... SARA BAUME But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothere... SARA BAUME So it's as if,' I say, 'I'm okay in my own bones, but I know that my bones aren't living up to other... SARA BAUME
More John Keats
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Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingn... JOHN KEATS He ne'er is crowned with immortality
Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. JOHN KEATS No, no, I'm sure,
My restless spirit never could endure
To brood so long upon one luxury,
... JOHN KEATS Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; ... JOHN KEATS What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth. JOHN KEATS I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to s... JOHN KEATS When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before h... JOHN KEATS I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave JOHN KEATS But were there ever any
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Too happy, happy brook,
Thy bubblings ne'er remember
Apollo... JOHN KEATS Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring wi... JOHN KEATS Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts. JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it. JOHN KEATS And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest
The silver clouds.
- John Keats, JOHN KEATS 'Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, gli... JOHN KEATS You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I
could resist till I saw you; and ev... JOHN KEATS And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon. JOHN KEATS Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. JOHN KEATS Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the... JOHN KEATS O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings JOHN KEATS I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be
happy with you here--how short is th... JOHN KEATS Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the high... JOHN KEATS I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. JOHN KEATS I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination... JOHN KEATS Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not start... JOHN KEATS There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures th... JOHN KEATS You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. JOHN KEATS Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss. JOHN KEATS 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. JOHN KEATS It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy cita... JOHN KEATS The poetry of the earth is never dead. JOHN KEATS Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. JOHN KEATS Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wor... JOHN KEATS The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to l... JOHN KEATS I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. JOHN KEATS A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. JOHN KEATS Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. JOHN KEATS Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. JOHN KEATS What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. JOHN KEATS My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. JOHN KEATS Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. JOHN KEATS I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could... JOHN KEATS I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder n... JOHN KEATS And shade the violets,
That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. JOHN KEATS Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellow... JOHN KEATS There was an awful rainbow once in heaven;
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the ... JOHN KEATS I never felt my Mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment - upon no person ... JOHN KEATS You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. JOHN KEATS I go amongst the buildings of a city and I see a Man hurrying along - to what? JOHN KEATS I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as a... JOHN KEATS Even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself: but from some character in whose soul I now live. JOHN KEATS Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears, and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries, T... JOHN KEATS I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. JOHN KEATS If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in im... JOHN KEATS For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses. JOHN KEATS The world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall ne... JOHN KEATS I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter. JOHN KEATS O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! JOHN KEATS Through the dancing poppies stole
A breeze most softly lulling to my soul. JOHN KEATS The poppies hung
Dew-dabbed on their stalks. JOHN KEATS He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. JOHN KEATS St Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold. JOHN KEATS Those green-robed senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dr... JOHN KEATS Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up th... JOHN KEATS Where the nightingale doth sing
Not a senseless, tranced thing,
But divine melodious truth. JOHN KEATS Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice ... JOHN KEATS Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
C... JOHN KEATS Hear ye not the hum
Of mighty workings? JOHN KEATS When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
Fro... JOHN KEATS Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almos... JOHN KEATS Beauty is truth, truth beauty, --that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. JOHN KEATS Tis the witching hour of night, Or bed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, g... JOHN KEATS Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth... JOHN KEATS I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. JOHN KEATS I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. Wha... JOHN KEATS The only means of strengthening one's intelligence is to make up one's mind about nothing-- to let t... JOHN KEATS How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. JOHN KEATS To Sorrow
I bade good-morrow,
And though to leave her far away behind;
But cheerly, chee... JOHN KEATS He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute,
In Provence call'd, "La belle dame sans merci." JOHN KEATS On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence. JOHN KEATS There is a budding morrow in midnight. JOHN KEATS Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; / Conspiring with... JOHN KEATS Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness JOHN KEATS The latest dream I ever dreamed / On the cold hill side. JOHN KEATS Should ever the fine-eyed maid to me be kind; Ah! surely it must be whenever I find; Some flowery sp... JOHN KEATS Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen. JOHN KEATS Virgin-choir to make delicious moan / Upon the midnight hours. JOHN KEATS Oh what can ail thee, wretched wight, / Alone and palely loitering; / The sedge is withered from the... JOHN KEATS Soon, up aloft, / The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide. JOHN KEATS O, sorrow!
Why dost borrow
Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? JOHN KEATS O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,
Let it not be among the jumbled heap
Of murky building... JOHN KEATS Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes,
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies. JOHN KEATS We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author. JOHN KEATS My chest of books divide amongst my friends-- JOHN KEATS Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, What can I do to kill it and be free? JOHN KEATS Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know JOHN KEATS I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. JOHN KEATS Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not JOHN KEATS Bright Star Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone s... JOHN KEATS When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank l... JOHN KEATS No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: JOHN KEATS I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me. JOHN KEATS My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you. JOHN KEATS I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at... JOHN KEATS Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye. JOHN KEATS I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever. JOHN KEATS My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for ... JOHN KEATS A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; It will never Pass into... JOHN KEATS If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all JOHN KEATS Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know JOHN KEATS A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness JOHN KEATS Leaving great verse unto a little clan. JOHN KEATS Souls of poets dead and gone, / What Elysium have ye known, / Happy field or mossy cavern, / Choicer... JOHN KEATS Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, s... JOHN KEATS Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf;
He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.
O... JOHN KEATS I wish I could say Tom was any better. His identity presses upon me so all day that I am obliged to ... JOHN KEATS A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continual... JOHN KEATS Their smiles, / Wan as primroses gathered at midnight / By chilly-fingered Spring. JOHN KEATS Where's the cheek that doth not fade, / Too much gazed at? JOHN KEATS The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;/ And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. JOHN KEATS I stood tip-toe upon a little hill. JOHN KEATS Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu JOHN KEATS I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high li... JOHN KEATS Where's the face / One would meet in every place? / Where's the voice, however soft, / One would hea... JOHN KEATS I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, / Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs. JOHN KEATS Pass into nothingness. JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it JOHN KEATS Once upon a time, the American met the Automobile and fell in love. Unfortunately, this led him into... JOHN KEATS On a half-reapèd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares t... JOHN KEATS Here lies one whose name was writ in water. JOHN KEATS I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fa... JOHN KEATS Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. JOHN KEATS Hard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. JOHN KEATS Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us. JOHN KEATS Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the high... JOHN KEATS And there I shut her wild, wild eyes / With kisses four. JOHN KEATS The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a ... JOHN KEATS O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song! JOHN KEATS When I behold, upon the night's starred face, / Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance. JOHN KEATS I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination JOHN KEATS Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lo... JOHN KEATS Mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep. JOHN KEATS Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,/ Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart / Only to meet agai... JOHN KEATS Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star. JOHN KEATS Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss JOHN KEATS St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! / The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; / The hare lim... JOHN KEATS Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numb... JOHN KEATS I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespe... JOHN KEATS Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I... JOHN KEATS Fairy Song Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep n... JOHN KEATS But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the... JOHN KEATS