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 afterward carefully avoid.
—John Keats
Topics: Adversity, Failure, Mistakes, Success & Failure, Difficulties, Failures
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
—John Keats
Topics: Family
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
—John Keats
Topics: Poets, Poetry
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
—John Keats
Topics: Fighting
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
—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. Not a select party.
—John Keats
Topics: Opinion
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
—John Keats
Topics: Dying, Death
What is more gentle than a wind in summer?
—John Keats
Topics: Nature
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