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John Keats Quotes - Page 6

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To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty

Naked, Bears, Calm

John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.207, Рипол Классик

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty . . .

Passion, Heart, Ideas

1817 Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

Time, Silence, Speech

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

Love, Poet, Metaphysical

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

Men, Doe, Speak

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.103, e-artnow

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.

Mind, Body, Restless

John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

Grateful, Kissing, Wind

John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.142, Рипол Классик

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

Memories, Principles, Proud

Letter to Fanny Brawne, ca. Feb. 1820

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Inspirational, Life, Nature

Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?

Memories, Liberty

John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.409, Delphi Classics

That queen of secrecy, the violet.

Queens, Flower, Violet

John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.199

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

Dream, Paradise, Positive Atheism

'The Fall of Hyperion' (written 1819) l. 1

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Death, Suicide, War

Quoted in Richard Monckton Milnes, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848)

Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.

Dancing, Mad, Together

John Keats (1991). “Complete Poems”, p.164, Harvard University Press

It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores

Whispering, Shore, Eternal

'On the Sea' (1817)

And how they kist each other's tremulous eyes.

Eye

John Keats (2010). “Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters”, p.7, Random House

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Death, Divorce, Sea

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.345, e-artnow

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.

Hours, Ache, Dies

John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.75

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--- No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever---or else swoon in death.

Sweet, Art, Stars

'Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art' (1819)

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

Knowledge, Thinking, People

John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.96

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Art, Excellence, Literature

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

Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.

Flower, Air, Rose

John Keats (2011). “John Keats”, p.24, Faber & Faber

'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?

Stars, Eye, Science

John Keats (1867). “The Life and Letters of John Keats”, p.196

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

Book, Night, Thinking

'When I have fears that I may cease to be' (written 1818)

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