Memorable Quotes and quotations from John KeatsJohn Keats English lyric poet (1795 - 1821)John Keats - - - Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know. John Keats - Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817 - O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. John Keats - - What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth. John Keats - - I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats - Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - died 1 year later - If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered. John Keats - - I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats - Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820 - I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives. John Keats - - 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? John Keats - - Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. |
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