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Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
- John Keats
Collection: Valentines
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
- John Keats
Collection: Valentines
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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
- John Keats
Collection: Truth
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
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Collection: Art
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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.
- John Keats
Collection: Poetry
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
- John Keats
Collection: Truth
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
- John Keats
Collection: Beauty
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
- John Keats
Collection: Experience
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Love is my religion - I could die for it.
- John Keats
Collection: Religion
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
- John Keats
Collection: Great
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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- John Keats
Collection: Beauty
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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
- John Keats
Collection: Nature
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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.
- John Keats
Collection: Death
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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.
- John Keats
Collection: Romantic
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats
Collection: Beauty
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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.
- John Keats
Collection: Nature
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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?
- John Keats
Collection: Intelligence
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
- John Keats
Collection: Poetry
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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
- John Keats
Collection: Imagination
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
- John Keats
Collection: Religion
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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.
- John Keats
Collection: Poetry
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats
Collection: Poetry
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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.
- John Keats
Collection: Wisdom
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
- John Keats
Collection: Romantic
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
- John Keats
Collection: Music
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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
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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.
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He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
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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.
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
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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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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
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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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The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
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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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You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
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Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
- John Keats
Collection: Ego
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I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever
- John Keats
Collection: Love
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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. 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 afterwards carefully avoid.
- John Keats
Collection: Cheer
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All writing is a form of prayer.
- John Keats
Collection: Prayer
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I have so much of you in my heart.
- John Keats
Collection: Love
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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
- John Keats
Collection: Dream
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Stop and consider! life is but a day
- John Keats
Collection: Life Is
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
- John Keats
Collection: Failure
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
- John Keats
Collection: Art
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A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.
- John Keats
Collection: Lakes
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To silence gossip, don't repeat it.
- John Keats
Collection: Gossip

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