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• A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

  John Keats

  Silence, Littles, Noise

  'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill' (1817) l. 10

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• I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them.

  John Keats

  Beautiful, Morning, Writing

  John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.150

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• Asleep in lap of legends old.

  John Keats

  Lap, Legends

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.72

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• Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave
  Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot;
  Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit,
  Where long ago a giant battle was;
  And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass
  In every place where infant Orpheus slept.
  Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept
  Into a sort of oneness, and our state
  Is like a floating spirit's. But there are
  Richer entanglements, enthralments far
  More self-destroying, leading, by degrees,
  To the chief intensity: the crown of these
  Is made of love and friendship, and sits high
  Upon the forehead of humanity.

  John Keats

  Life, Feet, Self

  John Keats, “Endymion: Book I”

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• This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."

  John Keats

  Lying, Heart, Names

  Epitaph for himself, in Richard Monckton Milnes 'Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats' (1848) vol. 2, p. 91.

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• The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.

  John Keats

  Nature, Stars, Children

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 24 October 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 403

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• How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.

  John Keats

  Self, Mad, Imagination

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters of John Keats”

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• I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

  John Keats

  Two, Luxury, Literature

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, 25 July 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 133

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• Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

  John Keats

  Wish, Crowds, Littles

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.328, Harvard University Press

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• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne, Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

  John Keats

  Eye, Men, Islands

  "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" l. 5 (1817)

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• It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.

  John Keats

  Summer, Sky, Singing

  'To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.' (written 1818)

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• 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

  John Keats

  War, Flower, Eye

  John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.374, Harvard University Press

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• When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

  John Keats

  Death, Brain, May

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• She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around.

  John Keats

  Sleep, Dragons

  John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.217, Wordsworth Editions

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• Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

  John Keats

  Philosophy, Angel, Wings

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229

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• My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

  John Keats

  Pain, Heart, Sadness

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 1

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• To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.

  John Keats

  Kindness, Ideas, Tools

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• Load every rift with ore.

  John Keats

  Rift, Crafts, Load

  "An introduction to the poetry of John Keats" by Andrew Motion, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2010.

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• His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

  John Keats

  Religion, Wish, Anxious

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• No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

  John Keats

  Dream, Luxury, Long

  John Keats (1818). “Endymion: A Poetic Romance”, p.43

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

  John Keats

  Failure, Literature, Fierce

  Endymion preface (1818)

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• Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

  John Keats

  Nature, Blessed, Self

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• Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

  John Keats

  Intellectual, Purpose, Ripening

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.40, Рипол Классик

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• O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

  John Keats

  Song, Simple, Romance

  John Keats (1962). “John Keats: With a Detailed Study and Text of Selected Poems”

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• Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

  John Keats

  Hate, Men, Grace

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.760, e-artnow

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