John Keats Famous Quotes
"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is allYe know on Earth, and all ye need to know."
The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
"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."
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
There is a budding morrow in midnight.
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.
"Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they"
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
"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."
"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."
I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats Quotations
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies."
Adrienne E Gusoff
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
Theodore Roosevelt
Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
Bertrand Russell
"In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed."
Akhenaton
"As long as one keeps searching, the answers come."
Joan Baez
"Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres."
The Divine Pymander
"Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener."
Billie Joe
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
Stephen Covey
"I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein