Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John KeatsRead
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.
Interpretation
Beautiful things bring lasting joy and tranquility to our lives.
This quote by John Keats emphasizes the enduring nature of beauty and how it can bring joy and serenity to our lives. The beauty we appreciate not only uplifts our spirits but also creates a lasting impact, providing us with comfort and peace over time.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of art in our lives.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me —write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair.
Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.
I sing, and the musicians kind of fit things around me.
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt
Calligraphy of geese_x000D_ against the sky-_x000D_ the moon seals it.
Imagination is a form of seeing
You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite into them, I melt them down...I love words so much...The unexpected ones...The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop.
I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
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