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“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter” Like The Complete Selected Poetry

― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems Poems 4,464 ratings
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“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school Like
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an intelligence and make it a soul?” 2,460 ratings Open Preview
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“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - Like

three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty
common years could ever contain.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

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“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music Like

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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” Like

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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” Like

― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance

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“Touch has a memory.” Like

― John Keats
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8/12/23, 11:10 PM John Keats Quotes (Author of The Complete Poems)

“Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.” Like

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“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs Like

for their religion--

I have shuddered at it,
I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you.
My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.”
― John Keats
tags: love, martyrdom, self-sacrifice 941 likes

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and Like

the truth of the Imagination.”

― John Keats
tags: imagination, love, truth 932 likes

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to Like

come to the top.”

― John Keats

tags: depression, desolation, sadness 751 likes

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Like

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”

― John Keats, The Complete Poems

tags: beauty, poetry, truth 526 likes

“Tis "the witching time of night", / Orbed is the moon and bright, / And Like

the stars they glisten, glisten, / Seeming with bright eyes to listen —”
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“Life is but a day; Like

A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way

From a tree’s summit.”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems
tags: life, poetry, transience 498 likes

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Like

Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”

― John Keats, The Complete Poems
tags: music, poetry 494 likes

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8/12/23, 11:10 PM John Keats Quotes (Author of The Complete Poems)

“I have good reason to be content, Like

for thank God I can read and

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perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.”
― John Keats
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tags: reading, shakespeare 424 likes

“I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing Like

you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have
absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were
dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for
religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be
martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I
could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have
ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.”
― John Keats

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“I want a brighter word than bright” Like

― John Keats

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“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Like

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”
― John Keats

tags: inspirational 371 likes

“You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the Like

last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.”

― John Keats

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“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.” Like

― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

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“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time Like

I have been half in love with easeful Death,

Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!”
― John Keats
tags: death, nightingale 268 likes

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8/12/23, 11:10 PM John Keats Quotes (Author of The Complete Poems)

“I have so much of you in my heart.” Like

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“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among Like

the greatest.”
― John Keats
tags: failure, greatness 261 likes

“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's Like

mind
about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
― John Keats

tags: intelligence, thinking 258 likes

“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it Like

existed before or not”

― John Keats

tags: art, beauty, poetry 248 likes

“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— Like

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”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

tags: poetry 245 likes

“My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk” Like

― John Keats
tags: imagination, monastery 243 likes

“We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone Like

the same steps as the author.”

― John Keats

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8/12/23, 11:10 PM John Keats Quotes (Author of The Complete Poems)

“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Like

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every

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discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true,
and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall
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afterwards carefully avoid.”
― John Keats

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