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Beauty2 quotes
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. — John Keats · 1820A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. — John Keats · 1818
Autumn1 quote
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too. — John Keats · 1820
I met a Lady in the Meads Full beautiful, a faery's child Her hair was long, her foot was light And her eyes were wild— — John Keats · 1820
I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again—my Life seems to stop there—I see no further. — John Keats · 1819
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings. — John Keats · 1820
O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! — John Keats · 1817
O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! — John Keats · 1817
Failure1 quote
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. — John Keats · 1818
To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven. — John Keats · 1817
I am certain of nothing but of 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. — John Keats · 1817
Intuition1 quote
I am certain of nothing but of 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. — John Keats · 1817
Life1 quote
O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! — John Keats · 1817
Love1 quote
I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again—my Life seems to stop there—I see no further. — John Keats · 1819
Philosophy1 quote
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings. — John Keats · 1820
O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! — John Keats · 1817
To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven. — John Keats · 1817
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness. — John Keats · 1818
Stars1 quote
And still they were the same bright, patient stars. — John Keats · 1820
And still they were the same bright, patient stars. — John Keats · 1820
The sky1 quote
To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven. — John Keats · 1817
Truth1 quote
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. — John Keats · 1820
Women1 quote
I met a Lady in the Meads Full beautiful, a faery's child Her hair was long, her foot was light And her eyes were wild— — John Keats · 1820