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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
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John Keats (Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems)
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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John Keats (Letters of John Keats)
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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John Keats (Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne)
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Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
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John Keats
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
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John Keats
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Touch has a memory.
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John Keats
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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John Keats (Endymion: A Poetic Romance)
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Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.
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John Keats
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
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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.
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John Keats
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion--
I have shuddered at it,
I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you.
My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.
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John Keats
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
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John Keats (The Complete Poems)
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When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think
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Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay)
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Tis "the witching time of night", / Orbed is the moon and bright, / And the stars they glisten, glisten, / Seeming with bright eyes to listen —
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John Keats
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Life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.
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John Keats (The Complete Poems)
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.
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John Keats (The Complete Poems)
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I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.
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John Keats
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I want a brighter word than bright
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John Keats
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
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John Keats
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I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.
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John Keats