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Letter "J" » John Keats Quotes
«What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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in time, meeting of minds, occasions, party, prevent, quarrels, shock
«My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber 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 languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers 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.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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«Their smiles, / Wan as primroses gathered at midnight / By chilly-fingered Spring.»
«Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu»
«A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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continually, filling, identities, identity, informing, some other
«Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien»
«Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers; Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide; The unhealthy pleasures, ex»
«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 gnome mine unweave a rainbow.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
catalogue, catalogued, catalogues, charms, clip, clipped, clipping, common cold, common touch, gnome, gnomes, haunted, mysteries, rainbow, texture, textures, The Haunted, unweave, woof
«Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; / Conspiring with him how to load and bless / With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bosom, conspires, Conspiring, eaves, fruitfulness, load, maturing, mists, thatch, thatched, thatching, The Vines
«Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,/ And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; / Round many western islands have I been / Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.»
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