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John Keats

Born: October 31, 1795

Died: February 23, 1821

Nationality: English

Occupation: Poet

Biography: John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.

John Keats

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”

- John Keats

Source/Notes: Endymion (1818), Book I
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John Keats

“"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

- John Keats

Source/Notes: The Complete Works of John Keats, Volume 2, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1818, p. 105, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
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John Keats

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

- John Keats

Source/Notes: The Complete Works of John Keats, Volume 5, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1820, p. 54, "Letter to George and Georgina Keats, April 1819"
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John Keats

“He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.”

- John Keats

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“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”

- John Keats

Source/Notes: Works of John Keats (2010 edition), MobileReference - ISBN: 9781607784869
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John Keats

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”

- John Keats

Source/Notes: Epitaph for himself (1821). As quoted in: "Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats" (1848) by Richard Monckton Milnes
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John Keats

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”

- John Keats

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“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”

- John Keats

Source/Notes: Selected Letters of John Keats (2005 edition), Harvard University Press - ISBN: 9780674018419
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John Keats

“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.”

- John Keats

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“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”

- John Keats

Source/Notes: To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819) - Letters (1817-1820)
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John Keats

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

- John Keats

Source/Notes: The Letters Of John Keats (2004 edition), Kessinger Publishing - ISBN: 9781417945634
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John Keats

“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”

- John Keats

Source/Notes: The Complete Works of John Keats (1820 edition)
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John Keats

“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”

- John Keats

Source/Notes: Selected Poems and Letters of Keats (1995 edition), Heinemann - ISBN: 9780435150778
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John Keats

“It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.”

- John Keats

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