Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Quote by John Keats

Topics: Intelligence Quotes

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour...

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour...

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed...

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed...

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you...

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you...

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned...

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned...

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Love is like the moon, when it does not increase, it decreases

Love is like the moon, when it does not increase, it decreases

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among...

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing,...

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing,...

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass...

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass...

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish...

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish...

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever;...

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever;...

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between...

Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between...

There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do...

There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do...