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#1

“Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.”
― John Keats

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#2

“Touch has a memory.”
― John Keats

tags: memory, touch

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#3

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
― John Keats

tags: environment, nature, poetry

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#4

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

tags: music, poetry

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#5

“Life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

tags: life, poetry, transience

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#6

“I want a brighter word than bright”
― John Keats

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#7

“I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.”
― John Keats

tags: reading, shakespeare

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#8

“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”
― John Keats

tags: failure, greatness

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#9

“We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.”
― John Keats

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#10

“My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk”
― John Keats

tags: imagination, monastery

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#11

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”
― John Keats

tags: poetry

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#12

“Life is divine Chaos. It's messy, and it's supposed to be that way.”
― Keats

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#13

“I find I cannot exist without Poetry”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

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#14

“Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer”
― John Keats

tags: humans, nature, scenery

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#15

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder

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#16

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: disappointment

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#17

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

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#18

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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#19

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#20

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: reading, words, writing

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#21

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#22

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, humor, writing

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#23

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#24

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

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#25

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

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#26

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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#27

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: writing

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#28

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

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#29

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

tags: writing

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#30

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

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