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John Keats Quotes

Biography: John Keats is known for his vivid and sensuous poetry, including the f... more Biography: John Keats is known for his vivid and sensuous poetry, including the famous odes like "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Born in 1795 in London, Keats faced significant personal hardship and died young at 25. Despite his short life, his work has had a lasting influence on English literature. less

"Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer."

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"The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream."

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"O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts."

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"The excellence of every art is its intensity."

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"Life is but a day, a fragile dew-drop on its perilous way."

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"A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence."

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"Don't be discouraged by a failure it can be a positive experience"

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"You are always new the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest"

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"Touch has a memory"

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"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts"

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"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest"

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"If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me nothing to make my friends proud of my memory but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd"

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"The poetry of the earth is never dead"

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"My spirit is too weak mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep"

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"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced"

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