Quotes by John Keats

John Keats

John Keats

English poet

Lived from: 1795 - 1821

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 31 october 1795 Died: 23 february 1821

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  • I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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  • If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
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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.
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  • Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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  • Love is my religion - I could die for it.
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  • Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.
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  • Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
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  • My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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  • Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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.
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  • Scenery is fine, bui human nature is finer.
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  • The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
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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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  • The poetry of the earth is never dead.
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  • The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
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  • The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
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  • There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
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  • There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
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