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• You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

  John Keats

  Moments, Forgetful, Dissolving

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

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• Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.

  John Keats

  Reality, Pursuit

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.69, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

  John Keats

  Thinking, Poet

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 14 Oct. 1818

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• The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.

  John Keats

  Grieving, Steel, Heal

  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.117, e-artnow

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• Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring's honey'd cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness—to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

  John Keats

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  John Keats (1847). “The Poetical Works of John Keats”, p.244

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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

  Love, Believe, Valentine's Day

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.313, Harvard University Press

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• I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty . . .

  John Keats

  Passion, Heart, Ideas

  1817 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov.

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• Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

  John Keats

  Knowledge, Conversation, Endeavor

  John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.59

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• What is more gentle than a wind is summer?

  John Keats

  Summer, Nature, Wind

  John Keats (2009). “Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats”, p.114, Modern Library

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• O aching time! O moments big as years!

  John Keats

  Time, Years, Moments

  'Hyperion: A Fragment' (1820) bk. 1, l. 64

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• Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.

  John Keats

  Dancing, Mad, Together

  John Keats (1991). “Complete Poems”, p.164, Harvard University Press

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• I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

  John Keats

  Kissing, Soul, Firsts

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.413, Рипол Классик

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• Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

  John Keats

  Eye, Ease, Dry

  'Shed no tear - O shed no tear' (written 1819)

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• I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel.

  John Keats

  Self, Speak, Feels

  Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds, August 24, 1819.

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• It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

  John Keats

  Tree, Ought

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• There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

  John Keats

  Half, Use, Done

  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.414, e-artnow

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• I will clamber through the clouds and exist.

  John Keats

  Clouds

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.295, Рипол Классик

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• I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.

  John Keats

  Writing, World, Next

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 24 August 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 146

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• ...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.

  John Keats

  Silly, Rocks, Sea

  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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• There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.

  John Keats

  Heart, Awful, Immortality

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 22 September 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 370

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• My chest of books divide amongst my friends.

  John Keats

  Book, Divides, My Friends

  Last poem which doubled as his last will and testament,

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• I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

  John Keats

  Wish, Arms, Thunder

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.186

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• Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold.

  John Keats

  Gold, Realms

  1815 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer', l.1. (Published in The Examiner 1816.)

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• With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

  John Keats

  Beauty, Overcoming, Poet

  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.186, e-artnow

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• Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

  John Keats

  Flower, Marigolds, Ardent

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

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