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1 " I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. "
― John Keats , Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
2 " I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. "
― John Keats
3 " I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could die for you.My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet. "
4 " Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? "
― John Keats , Letters of John Keats
5 " Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it "
6 " Here lies one whose name was writ on water. "
7 " Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter "
― John Keats , Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems
8 " For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses. "
9 " Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know "
― John Keats , The Complete Poems
10 " Beauty is truth, truth beauty "
11 " 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 should at finding a pearl in the rubbish. "
12 " A thing of beauty is a joy forever. "
― John Keats , Endymion: A Poetic Romance
13 " If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever. "
14 " Wherein lies happiness? In that which becksOur ready minds to fellowship divine,A fellowship with essence; till we shine,Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. BeholdThe clear religion of heaven! "
15 " 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 pinions o’er my head. "
16 " Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. "
17 " Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die,To cease upon the midnight with no pain,While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! "
18 " Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death... "
19 " Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death,Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,To take into the air my quiet breath. "
― John Keats , Complete Poems and Selected Letters
20 " The world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there. "
