John Keats Quotes
One of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement.
(1795 - 1821)
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A drainless shower of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power; 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.
[Poets And Poetry]
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A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
[Experience]
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
[Beauty]
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Beauty is truth - truth, beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
[Beauty]
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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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Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.
[Imagination]
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.
[Failure]
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Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.
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He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
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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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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you.
[Faith]
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I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel.
[Women]
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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.
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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.
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
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I wish to believe in immortality - I wish to live with you forever.
[Immortality]
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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