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• Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?

  John Keats

  Hearing

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.20, Harvard University Press

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• The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.

  John Keats

  Dew, Poppies, Stalking

  John Keats (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.24

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• As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

  John Keats

  Time, Silence, Speech

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• To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty

  John Keats

  Naked, Bears, Calm

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.207, Рипол Классик

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• I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

  John Keats

  Real, Past, Feelings

  "Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats".

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• A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

  John Keats

  Love, Poet, Metaphysical

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• How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

  John Keats

  Men, Doe, Speak

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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.

  John Keats

  Mind, Body, Restless

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

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• I find I cannot exist without Poetry

  John Keats

  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.103, e-artnow

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• But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

  John Keats

  Grateful, Kissing, Wind

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.142, Рипол Классик

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• If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

  John Keats

  Memories, Principles, Proud

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, ca. Feb. 1820

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• Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

  John Keats

  Dream, Paradise, Positive Atheism

  'The Fall of Hyperion' (written 1819) l. 1

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• Touch has a memory. O say, love say,
  What can I do to kill it and be free
  In my old liberty?

  John Keats

  Memories, Liberty

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.409, Delphi Classics

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• That queen of secrecy, the violet.

  John Keats

  Queens, Flower, Violet

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.199

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• The poetry of the earth is never dead.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

  John Keats

  Death, Suicide, War

  Quoted in Richard Monckton Milnes, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848)

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• And how they kist each other's tremulous eyes.

  John Keats

  Eye

  John Keats (2010). “Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters”, p.7, Random House

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• When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.

  John Keats

  Night, Thinking, Hands

  1818 'When I Have FearsThat I May Cease to Be'.

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• Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

  John Keats

  Death, Divorce, Sea

  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.345, e-artnow

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• It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores

  John Keats

  Whispering, Shore, Eternal

  'On the Sea' (1817)

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• You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.

  John Keats

  Hours, Ache, Dies

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.75

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• An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

  John Keats

  Knowledge, Thinking, People

  John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.96

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• Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--- No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever---or else swoon in death.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Art, Stars

  'Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art' (1819)

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• Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,
  Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart
  Only to meet again more close.

  John Keats

  Flower, Air, Rose

  John Keats (2011). “John Keats”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

  John Keats

  Art, Excellence, Literature

  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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