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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

John Keats
Positive, Happiness, Real
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 March 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 81

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

John Keats
Happiness, Beauty, Nature
Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

Wine is only sweet to happy men.

John Keats
Happiness, Sweet, Wine
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.269, e-artnow

In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.

John Keats
Happiness, Tree, Branches
'In drear nighted December' (written 1817)

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

John Keats
Happiness, Beautiful, Morning
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.709, e-artnow

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

John Keats
Happiness, Stars, Children
John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.752, Delphi Classics

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