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The quotations of

John Keats

English Romantic poet

1795–1821

29 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Poetry and Nature.

The poetry of earth is never dead.
Poems (1817)
- Nature
- Poetry
A drainless shower
Of light is poesy; ’tis the supreme of power;
’Tis might half slumb’ring on its own right arm.
Poems (1817)
- Poetry
A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity — he is continually informing — and filling some other body.
To Richard Woodhouse (27 October 1818)
- Poetry
The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man: It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself.
To James Hessey (9 October 1818)
- Genius
- Poetry
Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (1816)In context
- Poetry
- Reading

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