39 Famous Quotes by John Keats
10/31/1795 - 2/23/1821
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Keats, John
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About John Keats
John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.
Although his poems were not generally well-received by critics during his life, his reputation grew after his death, so that by the end of the 19th century he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He had a significant influence on a diverse range of poets and writers. Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life.
The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature.
In a drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy brook,
Thy bubblings ne'er remember
Apollo's summer look;
But with a sweet forgetting,
They stay their crystal fretting,
Never, never petting
About the frozen time.
December
Quotes, by John Keats , Source: Stanzas
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No, no, I'm sure,
My restless spirit never could endure
To brood so long upon one luxury,
Unless it did, though fearfully, espy
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
Immortality
Quotes, by John Keats , Source: Endymion (bk. I)
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He ne'er is crowned with immortality
Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
Immortality
Quotes, by John Keats , Source: Endymion (bk. II)
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I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be
happy with you here--how short is the longest life. I wish to
believe in immortality--I wish to live with you forever.
Immortality
Quotes, by John Keats , Source: Letter to Fanny Brawne (XXXVI)
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Those green-robed senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.
Oak
Quotes, by John Keats , Source: Hyperion (bk. I, l. 73)
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O, sorrow!
Why dost borrow
Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
Sorrow
Quotes, by John Keats , Source: Endymion (bk. IV)
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How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.
Sorrow
Quotes, by John Keats , Source: Hyperion (bk. I, l. 36)
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven;
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull catalogue of common things.
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.
Rainbows
Quotes, by John Keats , Source: Lamia (pt. II, l. 231)
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Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes,
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies.
Paradise
Quotes, by John Keats , Source: Fairy Song
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Poetry
Quotes, by John Keats
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