“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: poetry
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Scenery is fine – but human nature
“Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: nature
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There is not a fiercer hell than
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: failure
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You speak of Lord Byron and me;
“You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: great
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Love is my religion – I could
“Love is my religion – I could die for it.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: love
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Do you not see how necessary a
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: intelligence
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What the imagination seizes as beauty must
“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: imagination
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Poetry should… should strike the reader as
“Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: poetry
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are
“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: death
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I love you the more in that
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: love
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess
“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: poetry
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