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• Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

  John Keats

  Life, Real, Experience

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• I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.

  John Keats

  Love, Crush, Without You

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.390, Harvard University Press

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• Shed no tear - O, shed no tear!
  The flower will bloom another year.
  Weep no more - O, weep no more!
  Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

  John Keats

  Death, Flower, Sleep

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

  John Keats

  Art, Excellence, Intensity

  Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 192

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• A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

  John Keats

  Happiness, Beauty, Nature

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

  John Keats

  Soul, Tears, World

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• Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live.

  John Keats

  Blessing, Should

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.

  John Keats

  Failure, Success And Failure, Highways

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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

  Life, Depression, Wisdom

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.824, Delphi Classics

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• Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

  John Keats

  Valentines Day, Kissing, Romantic Love

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.75, Рипол Классик

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• I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.

  John Keats

  Love, Crush, Men

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• All writing is a form of prayer.

  John Keats

  Prayer, Writing, Form

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• A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

  John Keats

  Men, Allegory

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 February 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 67

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  You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

  John Keats

  Kissing, Teenage Love, Lasts

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.162

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• O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Climbing

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 185

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• I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!

  John Keats

  Love, Lying, Heart

  John Keats (1948). “John Keats”

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• Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

  John Keats

  Pain, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure

  John Keats (2009). “Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats”, p.160, Modern Library

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• Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!

  John Keats

  Thinking, Mind, Originality

  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.439, e-artnow

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• Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget.

  John Keats

  Forget, Far Away, Fades

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 3

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• The air is all softness.

  John Keats

  Air, Softness

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.172

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• Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.

  John Keats

  Silent, Eternity, Tease

  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 5

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• Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

  John Keats

  Weed, Dream, Sea

  John Keats, “The Eve Of St. Agnes”

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• Love is my religion - I could die for it.

  John Keats

  Love, Passion, Romance

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.130

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• Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

  John Keats

  Spring, Flower, Poison

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.41

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• I want a brighter word than bright

  John Keats

  Want, Bright Star, Brighter

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.68

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