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Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Date of Birth: October 31, 1795 Date of Death: February 23, 1821 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: John Keats Related Authors: Alfred Lord Tennyson William Wordsworth Alexander Pope Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning W. H. Auden Percy Bysshe Shelley John Milton |
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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
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John Keats 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 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 Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. John Keats Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. John Keats Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. John Keats The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. John Keats The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. John Keats The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. John Keats 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 There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. John Keats There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. John Keats Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel. John Keats What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. John Keats With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. John Keats You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. John Keats You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task. John Keats |
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