John Keats Quotes - Page 13

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• To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.

  John Keats

  Kindness, Ideas, Tools

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• My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

  John Keats

  Pain, Heart, Sadness

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 1

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• The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

  John Keats

  Garden, Sky, Listening

  'To Autumn' (1820) st. 3

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• When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

  John Keats

  Death, Brain, May

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• She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around.

  John Keats

  Sleep, Dragons

  John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.217, Wordsworth Editions

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• Let us away, my love, with happy speed; There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see, - Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead. Awake! arise! my love and fearless be, For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.

  John Keats

  Home, Eye, Southern

  John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.660, e-artnow

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Play, Sensual

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 11 (1820)

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• Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

  John Keats

  Philosophy, Angel, Wings

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229

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• No one can usurp the heights...
  But those to whom the miseries of the world
  Are misery, and will not let them rest.

  John Keats

  World, Height, Misery

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• I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

  John Keats

  Reading, Thank God, Depth

  John Keats (2015). “Sonnets (Complete Edition): 63 Sonnets from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, influenced by John Milton and Edmund Spenser, and one of the greatest lyric poets in English Literature, alongside William Shakespeare”, p.184, e-artnow

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• Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

  John Keats

  Heart, Home, Sea

  "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)

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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.

  John Keats

  Song, War, Evening

  'O thou whose face hath felt the winter's wind' (written 1818)

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• ... Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved, And been well nurtured in his mother tongue.

  John Keats

  Mother, Dream, Art

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.233, Рипол Классик

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• What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

  John Keats

  Party, Two, Mind

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.273, Рипол Классик

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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

  Inspirational, Reading Poetry, Remembrance

  Letter to John Taylor, 27 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 238

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• Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun.

  John Keats

  Feelings, Sun, Vain

  John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.534, e-artnow

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• I came to feel how far above
  All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood,
  All earthly pleasure, all imagined good,
  Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.

  John Keats

  Pride, Kissing, Fickle

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.105, Рипол Классик

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• There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

  John Keats

  Failure, Literature, Fierce

  Endymion preface (1818)

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• His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed.

  John Keats

  Eye, Hands, Lays

  John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.24, Harvard University Press

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• All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.

  John Keats

  Writing, Comfort, Clean

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 17 September 1819, in H. E. Rollins(ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 186

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• Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.

  John Keats

  Time, Men, Years

  'The Human Seasons' (1819)

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• Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.

  John Keats

  Food, Writing, Hands

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.96

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• Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

  John Keats

  Nature, Blessed, Self

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• It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.

  John Keats

  Life, Men, Departed

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• I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.

  John Keats

  Rights, Looks, Sparrows

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.584, e-artnow

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