John Keats Quotes - Page 4

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• Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget.

  John Keats

  Forget, Far Away, Fades

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 3

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• I find I cannot exist without Poetry

  John Keats

  John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.103, e-artnow

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• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

  John Keats

  Travel, America, Gold

  'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' (1817)

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• We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

  John Keats

  Book, Experience, Gone

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 279

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• What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?

  John Keats

  Moving, Heart, Moon

  John Keats, “Endymion: Book III”

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• The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.

  John Keats

  Eye, His Eyes, Purpose

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 March 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 80

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• Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

  John Keats

  Human Nature, Fine, Scenery

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 13 March 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 242

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• And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

  John Keats

  Art, Flower, Bed

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.172

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• A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

  John Keats

  Taken, Men, Should Have

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 22 November 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 188

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• My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses

  John Keats

  Mind, Body, Rooms

  Jane Campion, John Keats (2009). “So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne”, p.24, Penguin UK

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• A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.

  John Keats

  Life, Eye, Men

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.29

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• I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

  John Keats

  Life, Mean, Wish

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, August 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 311

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• Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.
  Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions,
  Majesties, sovran voices, agonies,
  Creations and destroyings, all at once
  Pour into the wide hollows of my brain,
  And deify me, as if some blithe wine
  Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk,
  And so become immortal.

  John Keats

  Wine, Agony, Names

  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.307, e-artnow

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• I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

  John Keats

  Love, Believe, Valentine's Day

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.313, Harvard University Press

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• There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

  John Keats

  Music, Life And Love, World

  Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 13 January 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 204

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• The poetry of the earth is never dead.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.

  John Keats

  Reality, Pursuit

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.69, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

  John Keats

  Kissing, Soul, Firsts

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.413, Рипол Классик

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• Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories.

  John Keats

  Dream, Loneliness, Eye

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

  John Keats

  Peace, War, Calm

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.209, Рипол Классик

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• It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores

  John Keats

  Whispering, Shore, Eternal

  'On the Sea' (1817)

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• Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

  John Keats

  Relationship, Spears

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.480, Harvard University Press

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• I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

  John Keats

  Fear, War, Failure

  Letter to James Hessey, 8 October 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 374

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• Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--- No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever---or else swoon in death.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Art, Stars

  'Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art' (1819)

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• You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

  John Keats

  Moments, Forgetful, Dissolving

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.130

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