Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- John Keats
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Quotes by John Keats 2
John Keats, 1795-1821. British poet considered among the greatest in English. His works, melodic and rich in classical imagery, include "The Eve of St. Agnes," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and "To Autumn" (all 1819).
Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity- it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel- or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. . . . I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that- one is sure to get into some mess before evening.
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.
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