John Keats

John Keats

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,And still more, later flowers for the bees,Until they think warm days will never cease,For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells."
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"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,And still more, later flowers for the bees,Until they think warm days will never cease,For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells."
John Keats Complete Poems and Selected Letters
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"Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer"
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"O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep,— Nature’s observatory—whence the dell, Its flowery slopes, its river’s crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep ’Mongst boughs pavillion’d, where the deer’s swift leap Startles the wild bee from the fox-glove bell. But though I’ll gladly trace these scenes with thee, Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind, Whose words are images of thoughts refin’d, Is my soul’s pleasure; and it sure must be Almost the highest bliss of human-kind, When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee."
John Keats The Complete Poems
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"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
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"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not"
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"“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”"
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"“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”"
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"“Bright star, would I were steadfast 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, Pillow'd 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 to death. Bright Star”"
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"“Life is but a day;A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.”"
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"“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”"
John Keats The Complete Poems
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"“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”"
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"“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”"
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"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."
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"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
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"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
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"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise."
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"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."
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"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."
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"With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness."
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