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26. Keats on Joy
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John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases;·it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health and quiet breathing.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!

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

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain.



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

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

To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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