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John Keats Quotes about Literature

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

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

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.647, Delphi Classics

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

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

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

Letter to Fanny Brawne, 25 July 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 133

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.47, Рипол Классик

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions