John Keats Quotes

• That purple-lined palace of sweet sin.

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• Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is—Love, forgive us!—cinders, ashes, dust; Love in a palace is perhaps at last More grievous torment than a hermit’s fast.

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• Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

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• She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr’d.

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• I saw pale kings, and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; Who cry’d—‘La belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!’

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• She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew; And sure in language strange she said, ‘I love thee true.’

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• Oh what can ail thee, knight at arms, Alone and palely loitering; The sedge has wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.

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• The poet and the dreamer are distinct, Diverse, sheer opposite, antipodes. The one pours out a balm upon the world, The other vexes it.

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• ‘None can usurp this height,’ returned that shade, ‘But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.’

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• My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.

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• I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel.

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• Call the world if you please ‘The vale of soul-making’.

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• Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.

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• Their smiles, Wan as primroses gathered at midnight By chilly fingered spring.

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• To Sorrow, I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind.

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• Here is wine, Alive with sparkles—never, I aver, Since Ariadne was a vintager, So cool a purple.

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• Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail, The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale, The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones, Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet, If human souls did never kiss and greet?

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• They always must be with us, or we die.

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• The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.

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• A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

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John Keats (162)

Birth:	31st October, 1795
Death:	23rd February, 1821
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

About

John Keats was born in London, England. He was an English Romantic poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. Having finished his apprenticeship with Hammond, he registered as a medical student at Guy's Hospital, now part of King's College London and began studying there in October 1815. He wrote several poems include: Endymion, Hyperion, Lamia, To Autumn, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Ode to a Nightingale.

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