“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...”
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John Keats was the latest born of the great Romantic poets. Along with Byron and Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the movement, despite publishing his work over only a four year period. During his short life, his work was not well received by critics, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen was significant. The poetry of Keats was characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes which remain among the most popular poems in English literature. The letters of Keats are among the most celebrated by any English poet. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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...”
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“Life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.”
“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”
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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, an...”
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“Here lies one whose name was writ on water.”
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“For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.”
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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
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“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we sho...”
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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
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“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”
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“Bright Star Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The m...”
“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”
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“I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.”
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“To Solitude O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep,— Nature’s observatory—whence the dell, Its flowery slopes...”
“To Sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind.”
“You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd wi...”
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“When by my solitary hearth I sit, When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit, And the bare heath of life presents no bloom; Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed, And wave thy silver p...”
“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death...”