I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Quote by John Keats

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

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

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

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

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu

Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

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.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does...

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does...

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of...

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of...

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an...

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an...

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be...

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be...