John Keats Quotes
65 John Keats quotes:
"Thy plaintive anthem fades / Past the near meadows, over the still stream, / Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep / In the next valley-glades: / Was it a vision or a waking dream? / Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?"
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"Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime."
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"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."
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"O Sorrow, / Why dost borrow / Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?"
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"Where but to think is to be full of sorrow and leaden eyed despairs"
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"When I behold, upon the night's starred face, / Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance."
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"For sure so fair a place was never seen; Of all that ever charmed romantic eye."
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"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."
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"It is true that in the height of enthusiasm I have been cheated into some fine passages; but that is not the thing."
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"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
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"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
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"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
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"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
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"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
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"The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility."
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"With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
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"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."
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"It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel."
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"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."
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