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And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest
The silver clouds.
- John Keats,
JOHN KEATS Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?
ROBERT BROWNING Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
JOHN KEATS I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high li...
JOHN KEATS When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank l...
JOHN KEATS It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love S...
JANE CAMPION If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. La...
SHELBY FOOTE Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
JACKIE KENNEDY Everybody looks for John. Everybody respects John. I still depend on him today. When I need some inf...
LOUIE GOLDEN Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, ...
LIBBA BRAY The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonha...
JIMMY PAGE [Yesterday, it appeared, at least for now, John] Junior ... Pass the cheese, please.
VICTORIA GOTTI John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
...
ROBERT BURNS John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligenc...
KEVIN RUDD John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.
TODD PHILLIPS We just rewrote a script based on John Grisham's 'The Runaway Jury' starring John Cusack and Gene Ha...
CHARLES KOPPELMAN Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I...
MAX CLELAND One good turn deserves another. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD Love is my religion - I could die for it.
JOHN KEATS The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feel...
JOHN KEATS I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
JOHN KEATS With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all...
JOHN KEATS Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
JOHN KEATS There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
JOHN KEATS You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees...
JOHN KEATS I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I co...
JOHN KEATS Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of...
JOHN KEATS A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingn...
JOHN KEATS He ne'er is crowned with immortality
Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
JOHN KEATS No, no, I'm sure,
My restless spirit never could endure
To brood so long upon one luxury,
...
JOHN KEATS Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
...
JOHN KEATS What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
JOHN KEATS I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to s...
JOHN KEATS When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before h...
JOHN KEATS I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave
JOHN KEATS But were there ever any
Writhed not at passed joy?
JOHN KEATS Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
JOHN KEATS A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
JOHN KEATS Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.
JOHN KEATS Touch has a memory.
JOHN KEATS I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom --one fil...
JOHN KEATS Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him...
JOHN KEATS Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it ...
JOHN KEATS The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the ...
JOHN KEATS Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someon...
JOHN KEATS Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heave...
JOHN KEATS What wreath for Lamia? What for Lycius?
What for the sage, old Apollonius?
Upon her aching for...
JOHN KEATS Even if I was well - I must make myself as good a Philosopher as possible. Now I have had opportuni...
JOHN KEATS My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber...
JOHN KEATS I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
JOHN KEATS Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shal...
JOHN KEATS A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; ...
JOHN KEATS Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant ag...
JOHN KEATS Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wo...
JOHN KEATS Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle i...
JOHN KEATS The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a ...
JOHN KEATS Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually l...
JOHN KEATS There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
JOHN KEATS I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
JOHN KEATS Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS Health is my expected heaven.
JOHN KEATS There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures t...
JOHN KEATS The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
JOHN KEATS The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty...
JOHN KEATS There's a blush for won t, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush f...
JOHN KEATS I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.
JOHN KEATS I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder n...
JOHN KEATS I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacl...
JOHN KEATS Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
JOHN KEATS I always made an awkward bow.
JOHN KEATS Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the c...
JOHN KEATS The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without fee...
JOHN KEATS I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
JOHN KEATS O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not ...
JOHN KEATS A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
JOHN KEATS In a drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy brook,
Thy bubblings ne'er remember
Apollo...
JOHN KEATS Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring wi...
JOHN KEATS Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts.
JOHN KEATS A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS 'Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, gli...
JOHN KEATS You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I
could resist till I saw you; and ev...
JOHN KEATS And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.
JOHN KEATS Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
JOHN KEATS Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the...
JOHN KEATS O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings
JOHN KEATS I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be
happy with you here--how short is th...
JOHN KEATS Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the high...
JOHN KEATS I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
JOHN KEATS Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wordi...
JOHN KEATS I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination...
JOHN KEATS Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not start...
JOHN KEATS There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures th...
JOHN KEATS You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
JOHN KEATS Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
JOHN KEATS 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
JOHN KEATS It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy cita...
JOHN KEATS The poetry of the earth is never dead.
JOHN KEATS Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
JOHN KEATS Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wor...
JOHN KEATS
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J.D. SALINGER It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
J.D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J.D. SALINGER I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout...
J.D. SALINGER I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J.D. SALINGER It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J.D. SALINGER Sleep tight, ya morons!
J.D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J.D. SALINGER If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
J.D. SALINGER Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.
J.D. SALINGER Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
J.D. SALINGER She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th...
J.D. SALINGER One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say...
J.D. SALINGER You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t...
J.D. SALINGER But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo...
J.D. SALINGER Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the...
J.D. SALINGER Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
J.D. SALINGER We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, tw...
J.D. SALINGER -Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That litt...
J.D. SALINGER If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
J.D. SALINGER I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
J.D. SALINGER There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ...
J.D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
J.D. SALINGER Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...
J.D. SALINGER O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa ...
J.D. SALINGER People always think something's all true.
J.D. SALINGER It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you...
J.D. SALINGER Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
J.D. SALINGER Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Budd...
J.D. SALINGER I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.
J.D. SALINGER American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
PIERRE SALINGER