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

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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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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

—Edgar Wilson Nye

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Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn’t even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

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I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

—Howard Dietz

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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

—Samuel Johnson

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Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

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