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• I will clamber through the clouds and exist.

  John Keats

  Clouds

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.295, Рипол Классик

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• Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

  John Keats

  Men, Priesthood, Perpetual

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• I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

  John Keats

  Wish, Arms, Thunder

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.186

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• An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

  John Keats

  Knowledge, Thinking, People

  John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.96

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• Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
  And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

  John Keats

  Song, Sweet, Poetry

  'To George Felton Mathew' (1817) l. 1

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• It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

  John Keats

  Tree, Ought

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• Touch has a memory. O say, love say,
  What can I do to kill it and be free
  In my old liberty?

  John Keats

  Memories, Liberty

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.409, Delphi Classics

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• As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

  John Keats

  Time, Silence, Speech

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• Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!

  John Keats

  Sleep, Eye, Lows

  John Keats (1925). “Poetical Works”

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• But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

  John Keats

  Grateful, Kissing, Wind

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.142, Рипол Классик

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• Works of genius are the first things in the world.

  John Keats

  Genius, World, Firsts

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• How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

  John Keats

  Men, Doe, Speak

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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.

  John Keats

  Men, Atheism, Literature

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.647, Delphi Classics

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• Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?

  John Keats

  Hearing

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.20, Harvard University Press

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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.

  John Keats

  Mind, Body, Restless

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What is more gentle than a wind is summer?

  John Keats

  Summer, Nature, Wind

  John Keats (2009). “Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats”, p.114, Modern Library

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• I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty . . .

  John Keats

  Passion, Heart, Ideas

  1817 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov.

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• I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel.

  John Keats

  Self, Speak, Feels

  Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds, August 24, 1819.

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• Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

  John Keats

  Dream, Paradise, Positive Atheism

  'The Fall of Hyperion' (written 1819) l. 1

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• one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

  John Keats

  Mind, Mysterious, Speculation

  Beth Lau, John Keats (1998). “Keats's Paradise Lost”, p.74, University Press of Florida

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• Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.

  John Keats

  Dancing, Mad, Together

  John Keats (1991). “Complete Poems”, p.164, Harvard University Press

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• I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

  John Keats

  Thinking, Poet

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 14 Oct. 1818

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• The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.

  John Keats

  Dew, Poppies, Stalking

  John Keats (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.24

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• A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

  John Keats

  Love, Poet, Metaphysical

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• There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.

  John Keats

  Heart, Awful, Immortality

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 22 September 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 370

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