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John Keats

John Keats

English poet

Lived from: 1795 - 1821

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 31 october 1795 Died: 23 february 1821

  • 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. Not a select party.
  • O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.
  • Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
  • 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.
  • Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
  • When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
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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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  • 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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  • The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
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