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• Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

  John Keats

  Dream, Suffering, Another Life

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.366, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

  John Keats

  Funny, Thinking, Class

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.263, Harvard University Press

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• There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.

  John Keats

  Midnight, Tomorrow

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• ... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.

  John Keats

  Air, Sea, Sky

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.266, Рипол Классик

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• I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

  John Keats

  Gratitude, Principles, All Things

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, ca. Feb. 1820

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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

  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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• You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.

  John Keats

  Best Friend, Kissing, Movement

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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• O let me lead her gently o'er the brook, Watch her half-smiling lips and downward look; O let me for one moment touch her wrist; Let me one moment to her breathing list; And as she leaves me, may she often turn Her fair eyes looking through her locks auburne.

  John Keats

  Eye, Breathing, Watches

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

  John Keats

  Imagination, Atheism, Literature

  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.883, e-artnow

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• I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.

  John Keats

  Love, Romantic, Believe

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.312, Harvard University Press

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• Time, that aged nurse,
  Rocked me to patience.

  John Keats

  Time, Nurse

  John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes Baron Houghton (1855). “The Poetical Works of John Keats”, p.82

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• We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

  John Keats

  Woven, World, Invention

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• Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.

  John Keats

  Giving, Joy, Unrest

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.69, Рипол Классик

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• I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

  John Keats

  Life, Mean, Wish

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, August 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 311

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• Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.

  John Keats

  Flower, Passive, Receptive

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.43, Рипол Классик

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• I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.

  John Keats

  Stars, Tonight, Venus

  John Keats (1889). “Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,
  then it better not come at all.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Learning, Tree

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• Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

  John Keats

  Tree, Way, Life Is

  "The poetical works of John Keats".

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• The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

  John Keats

  Peace, War, Calm

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.209, Рипол Классик

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• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

  John Keats

  Travel, America, Gold

  'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' (1817)

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• it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

  John Keats

  Mean, Men, Doubt

  Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 Dec. 1817

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• I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

  John Keats

  Love, Romantic, Men

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.986, Delphi Classics

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• And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

  John Keats

  Art, Flower, Bed

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

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• The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.

  John Keats

  Eye, His Eyes, Purpose

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 March 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 80

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• Death is Life's high meed.

  John Keats

  Death

  John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes Baron Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.390

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