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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
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Stop and consider! life is but a day
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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.
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
