| 39 Famous Quotes by John Keats
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“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Endymion (bk. I, l. 1)
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“'Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen-
For what listen they?”
Night Quotes Source: A Prophecy (l. 1)
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“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,
Let it not be among the jumbled heap
Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,--
Nature's observatory--whence the dell,
In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell,
May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep
'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap
Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.”
Solitude Quotes Source: Sonnet--O Solitude! If I must With Thee Dwell
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“There is a budding morrow in midnight.”
Tomorrow Quotes Source: Sonnet--Standing alone in giant Ignorance
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“You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I
could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I
endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."”
Reason Quotes Source: Letters to Fanny Braune (VIII)
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“Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf;
He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.
O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers,
What hides the body oft the mind discovers.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Epigrams--Clothes
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“When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the grasshopper's--he takes the lead
In summer luxury--he has never done
With his delights, for when tired out with fun,
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.”
Grasshoppers Quotes Source: On the Grasshopper and Cricket
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“Hear ye not the hum
Of mighty workings?”
Hearing Quotes Source: Addressed to Haydon (sonnet X)
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“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.”
Autumn Quotes Source: To Autumn
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“And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest
The silver clouds.
- John Keats,”
Zephyrs Quotes Source: Posthumous Poems--Sonnets--Oh! How I Love on a Fair Summer's Eve
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“He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute,
In Provence call'd, "La belle dame sans merci."”
Songs Quotes Source: The Eve of St. Agnes (st. 33), "La Belle Dame, sans Merci" is a poem written by Alain Chartier
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“But were there ever any
Writhed not at passed joy?”
Joy Quotes Source: Stanzas--In Drear Nighted December
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“Where the nightingale doth sing
Not a senseless, tranced thing,
But divine melodious truth.”
Nightingales Quotes Source: Ode--Bards of Passion and of Mirth
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“Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?”
Nightingales Quotes Source: To a Nightingale
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“Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown.”
Nightingales Quotes Source: To a Nightingale
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“St Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold.”
Owls Quotes Source: The Eve of St. Agnes
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“On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence.”
Winter Quotes Source: On the Grasshopper and Cricket
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“The poppies hung
Dew-dabbed on their stalks.”
Poppies Quotes Source: Endymion (bk. I, l. 681)
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“Through the dancing poppies stole
A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.”
Poppies Quotes Source: Endymion (bk. I, l. 681)
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“And shade the violets,
That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.”
Violets Quotes Source: I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill
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“And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.”
Eating Quotes Source: The Eve of St. Agnes (st. 30)
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“Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?”
Inns Quotes Source: Mermaid Tavern
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“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 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 Source: Endymion (bk. I)
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