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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
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The air is all softness.
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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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Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience.
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I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
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Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!
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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
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I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.
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Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.
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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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Load every rift with ore.
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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.
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My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses
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O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.
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was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?
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I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not.
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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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A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
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Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches little space they stop But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.
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Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.
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