What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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About John Keats

Portrait of John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They...

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I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

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

Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

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Imagination rules the world.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

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I can’t imagine what my life was before. I can’t imagine ever being without you for very long again.

—Anna Godbersen in Splendor

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

—Helen Rowland

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What limits people is that they don’t have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.

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