John Keats Quotes

• Negative Capability; that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

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• O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!

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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.

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• A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

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• I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands’ weaving.

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• It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores—and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns.

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• And they shall be accounted poet kings Who simply tell the most heart-easing things.

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• They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

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• O for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed That my own soul has to itself decreed.

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• Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind, Whose words are images of thoughts refined, Is my soul’s pleasure; and it sure must be Almost the highest bliss of human-kind, When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.

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• Morality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.

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• Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white.

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• Sweetly they slept On the blue fields of heaven, and then there crept A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sign that silence heaves.

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• Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star’d at the Pacific—and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

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• Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold.

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• Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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• For the sake of a few fine imaginative or domestic passages, are we to be bullied into a certain philosophy engendered in the whims of an egotist.

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

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• Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.

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• But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I lay them at your feet… Tread softly; for you tread on my dreams.

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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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