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Works of genius are the first things in the world.

John Keats

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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
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I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them.
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.
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He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
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O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!
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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
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O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.
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'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.
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Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.
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