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John Keats Quotes (276 quotes)
 | “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 |
| “"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" |
| “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" |
| Source/Notes: Works of John Keats (2010 edition), MobileReference - ISBN: 9781607784869 |
| 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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| “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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| “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) |
| “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 |
| “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
Born: October 31, 1795
Died: February 23, 1821 (aged 25)
Nationality: English
Occupation: Poet
Bio: 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.
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