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1. "Wherein lies happiness? In that which becksOur ready minds to fellowship divine,A fellowship with essence; till we shine,Full alchemiz'd, and free of space. BeholdThe clear religion of heaven!" ~ John Keats
2. "Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?---"On death" ~ John Keats
3. "I scarcely remember counting upon happiness—I look not for it if it be not in the present hour—nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel." ~ John Keats
4. "was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?" ~ John Keats
5. "Already with thee! tender is the night. . .But here there is no light. . ." ~ John Keats
6. "And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed,Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head." ~ John Keats
7. "Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest." ~ John Keats
8. "Knowledge enormous makes a god of me." ~ John Keats
9. "Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us." ~ John Keats
10. "So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self." ~ John Keats
11. "... 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." ~ John Keats
12. "For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say, ‘Thou art no Poet may'st not tell thy dreams?' Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved And been well nurtured in his mother tongue. Whether the dream now purpos'd to rehearse Be poet's or fanatic's will be known When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave." ~ John Keats
13. "The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility." ~ John Keats
14. "O aching time! O moments big as years!" ~ John Keats
15. "Books, like good friends, should be few and well chosen. SAMUEL PATERSON" ~ John Keats
16. "I go amongst the buildings of a city and I see a Man hurrying along - to what?" ~ John Keats
17. "The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn." ~ John Keats
18. "If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all." ~ John Keats
19. "I see a lily on thy brow,With anguish moist and fever dew;And on thy cheek a fading roseFast withereth too." ~ John Keats
20. "it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." ~ John Keats
21. "I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures." ~ John Keats
22. "one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another" ~ John Keats
23. "The air is all softness." ~ John Keats
24. "Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreamsThe summer time away." ~ John Keats
25. "Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir." ~ John Keats
26. "t this is human life: the war, the deeds,The disappointment, the anxiety,Imagination's struggles, far and nigh,All human; bearing in themselves this good,That they are still the air, the subtle food,To make us feel existence, and to shewHow quiet death is." ~ John Keats
27. "She dwells with Beauty--Beauty that must die: And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding Adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee mouths sips:" ~ John Keats
28. "Carpe diem. Seize the day." ~ John Keats
29. "Darkling I listen; and, for many a time 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
30. "For many a time I have been half in love with easeful death. Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, to take into the air my quiet breath" ~ John Keats
31. "O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake,Would all their colours from the sunset take:From something of material sublime,Rather than shadow our own soul's day-timeIn the dark void of night. For in the worldWe jostle, - but my flag is not unfurl'd..." ~ John Keats
32. "Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not" ~ John Keats
33. "You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest." ~ John Keats
34. "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?" ~ John Keats
35. "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." ~ John Keats
36. "Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever." ~ John Keats
37. "Brown and Dilke walked with me and back from the Christmas pantomime. I had not a dispute but a disquisition, with Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason - Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge. This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration." ~ John Keats
38. "The feel of not to feel it,When there is none to heal itNor numbed sense to steel it,Was never said in rhyme." ~ John Keats
39. "The world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there." ~ John Keats
40. "Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know." ~ John Keats
41. "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." ~ John Keats
42. "Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works." ~ John Keats
43. "I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top." ~ John Keats
44. "The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate." ~ John Keats
45. "When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink." ~ John Keats
46. "You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving." ~ John Keats
47. "It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores" ~ John Keats
48. "The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it." ~ John Keats
49. "I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel." ~ John Keats
50. "Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know." ~ John Keats
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