John Keats

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. ↗

— John Keats

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ↗

— John Keats

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Here lies one whose name was writ in water. ↗

— John Keats

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. ↗

— John Keats

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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. ↗

— John Keats

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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. ↗

— John Keats

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He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. ↗

— John Keats

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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ↗

— John Keats

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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ↗

— John Keats

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. ↗

— John Keats

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