1. John Keats - “O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!”

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2. John Keats - “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination - what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.”

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3. John Keats - “If poetry comes not naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”

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4. John Keats - “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.”

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5. John Keats - “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter.”

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6. John Keats - “Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy To those who woo her with too slavish knees.”

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7. John Keats - “When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.”

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8. John Keats - “Seasons 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-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.”

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9. John Keats - “Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”

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10. John Keats - “Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.”

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11. John Keats - “We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.”

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12. John Keats - “There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify — so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”

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13. John Keats - “One life,—a little gleam of time between two Eternities.”

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14. John Keats - “Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.”

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15. John Keats - “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.”

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16. John Keats - “Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.”

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17. John Keats - “So many, and so many, and such glee.”

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18. John Keats - “As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,— 'Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;' or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.”

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19. John Keats - “The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.”

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20. John Keats - “‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’—that is all Ye know on earth, and all Ye need to know.”

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21. John Keats - “Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books.”

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22. John Keats - “Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave A paradise for a sect.”

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23. John Keats - “I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart’s affections and the Truth of the Imagination.”

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24. John Keats - “Love is my religion - I could die for it.”

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25. John Keats - “He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.”

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