There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
John Keats Quotes
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter.
Ever let the fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star’d at the Pacific and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart’s affections and the Truth of the Imagination.
There is an old saying ‘well begun is half done’ – ’tis a bad one. I would use instead – Not begun at all until half done.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With […]
