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• We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

  John Keats

  Book, Experience, Gone

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 279

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• Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.
  Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions,
  Majesties, sovran voices, agonies,
  Creations and destroyings, all at once
  Pour into the wide hollows of my brain,
  And deify me, as if some blithe wine
  Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk,
  And so become immortal.

  John Keats

  Wine, Agony, Names

  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.307, e-artnow

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• Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu

  John Keats

  Hands, Joy, Bidding

  "Ode on Melancholy" l. 21 (1820)

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• I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

  John Keats

  Believe, Forever, Wish

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, June 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 293

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• Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

  John Keats

  Human Nature, Fine, Scenery

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 13 March 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 242

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• What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?

  John Keats

  Moving, Heart, Moon

  John Keats, “Endymion: Book III”

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• A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

  John Keats

  Taken, Men, Should Have

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 22 November 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 188

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• A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

  John Keats

  Love, Life, Beauty

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

  John Keats

  Moss, May, Shade

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

  John Keats

  Music, Life And Love, World

  Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 13 January 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 204

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• Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

  John Keats

  Men, Priesthood, Perpetual

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• Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

  John Keats

  Relationship, Spears

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.480, Harvard University Press

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• Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.

  John Keats

  Sky, Space, Swim

  "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" l. 9 (1817)

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• Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!

  John Keats

  Sleep, Eye, Lows

  John Keats (1925). “Poetical Works”

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• The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!

  John Keats

  Sweet, Gone

  'The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone' (written 1819)

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• My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses

  John Keats

  Mind, Body, Rooms

  Jane Campion, John Keats (2009). “So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne”, p.24, Penguin UK

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• Works of genius are the first things in the world.

  John Keats

  Genius, World, Firsts

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• Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

  John Keats

  Errors, Experience, Form

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• There is a budding morrow in midnight.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Persistence

  'To Homer' (written 1818)

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• Beauty is truth, truth beauty

  John Keats

  Beauty, Misunderstood

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)

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• Health is my expected heaven.

  John Keats

  Health, Heaven, Expected

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.161

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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.

  John Keats

  Men, Atheism, Literature

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.647, Delphi Classics

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• was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

  John Keats

  Love, Dream, Sleep

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8

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• Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.

  John Keats

  Failure, Positive Experiences, Discouraged

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• I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

  John Keats

  Fear, War, Failure

  Letter to James Hessey, 8 October 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 374

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