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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

John Keats
Imagination, Atheism, Literature
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.883, e-artnow

A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

John Keats
Stars, Long, Imagination
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 8 October 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 170

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

John Keats
Beauty, Art, Imagination
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817

I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.

John Keats
Women, Fall, Imagination
John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.

John Keats
Self, Mad, Imagination
John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters of John Keats”

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

John Keats
Dream, Imagination, May
John Keats (2015). “John Keats: Hyperion (Unabridged): An Epic Poem from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, best known for his Odes, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Indolence, Ode to Psyche, Ode to Fanny, Lamia and more”, p.114, e-artnow

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