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John Keats on Valentine's Day

1795–1821 England

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9 quotes

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Poems (1820)

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

Letters (1817)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
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, and quiet breathing.

Endymion (1818)

Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust.

Poems (1820)

And there shall be for thee all soft delight
That shadowy thought can win,
A bright torch, and a casement ope at night,
To let the warm Love in!

Poems (1820)

'Tis the pest
Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.

Endymion (1818)

In spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits.

Endymion (1818)

I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She look'd at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.

La Belle Dame sans Merci (1819)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Keats (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.