Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- John Keats
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Quotes by John Keats 4
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).
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
You speak of Lord Byron and me- there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees- I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fibre all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it langour- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibres of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
Are there not thousands in the world . . . Who love their fellows even to the death, Who feel the giant agony of the world, And more, like slaves to poor humanity, Labour for mortal good?
Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds Along the pebbled shore of memory!
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