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John Keats, a British Romantic poet, was born on October 31, 1795, and died on February 23, 1821. Known for his profound depictions of nature, love, and death, Keats' poetry is characterized by its fresh style and sincere emotion, exerting a profound influence on poets of later generations.

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“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.”

Body Poetry Literature Existence Identity Poet Filling Informing

Book:The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography

Source: The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography

“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.”

Inspirational Mind Mean Science Literature Intellect Anarchy Open Mindedness Strengthening

Author:John Keats

“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”

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“Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.”

Philosophy Literature Angel Wings Clip

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“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.”

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”

Art Literature Capable Art Is Excellence Intensity Disagreeable

Author: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.”

Should Humans Literature Nature Wonder Fire Human Nature Birth Creatures Findings Pity Heroic Electric Heroism Pearls Rubbish

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”

Literature Imagination Atheism Monk My Imagination Monasteries

Book:John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”

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Author:John Keats

“It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)

“The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.”

Helping Feelings Literature Enemy Addresses Hostility

Book:The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

“Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.”

Men Shows Hate Literature Energy Grace Streets Fine Hated Quarrels

Book:John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

“it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

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Author:John Keats

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

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Author:John Keats

“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”

Literature Hell Objects Failure Fierce

Author:John Keats