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John Keats Quotes - Page 2

Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!

John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.439, e-artnow

Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live.

John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

John Keats (2009). “Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats”, p.160, Modern Library

Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience.

John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes Baron Houghton (1855). “The Poetical Works of John Keats”, p.82

Knowledge enormous makes a God of me. Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions, Majesties, sovran voices, agonies, Creations and destroyings, all at once Pour into the wide hollows of my brain, And deify me, as if some blithe wine Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk, And so become immortal.

John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.307, e-artnow

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes Baron Houghton (1855). “The Poetical Works of John Keats”, p.97

And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.32, Harvard University Press

My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.311, Oxford University Press, USA

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press

Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.

John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.69, Рипол Классик

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 192

That which is creative must create itself.

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.226, e-artnow

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 185

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.263, Harvard University Press

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 192

The air is all softness.

John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.172

I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.

John Keats (1889). “Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne”, p.15, Рипол Классик