#thou

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. ↗

— John Keats

#intellect #make #make up #means #mind

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ↗

— John Keats

#appear #excess #fine #highest #his

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. ↗

— John Keats

#cannot #enemy #feelings #help #hostility

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it. ↗

— John Keegan

#africa #anything #become #black #extremely

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. ↗

— John Keegan

#always #battle #better #chinese #classics

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#basically #fires #fuel #guy #i

I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story. ↗

— Nancy Keenan

#cares #country #courage #daughters #deeply

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#getting #got #had #known #lies

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#average #boy #bus #bus driver #discouragement

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. ↗

— Helen Keller

#darkness #emptiness #fell #fingers #future