65 quotes by John Keats

“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.” — John Keats

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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

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“Love is my religion - I could die for it.” — John Keats

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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

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“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.” — John Keats

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“There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.” — John Keats

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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” — John Keats

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“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.” — John Keats

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“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.” — John Keats

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“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” — John Keats

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“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” — John Keats

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“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.” — John Keats

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“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.” — John Keats

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“Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.” — John Keats

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“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.” — John Keats

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