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Ifs Quotes by John Keats

14 Ifs quotes by John Keats

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John Keats’s “if” musings, though brief, echo his Romantic yearning for truth and beauty. This modest set offers a taste of his lyrical depth and the fleeting wonder that inspired his verses.

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O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

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How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

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If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.

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Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

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... Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not…

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I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt…

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How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although…

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The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but…

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Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have…

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Knowledge enormous makes a God of me. Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions, Majesties, sovran voices, agonies, Creations and destroyings, all…

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O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me…

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My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a…

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We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand…

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and…

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Phylosophy will clip an angel's wings.

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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things.…

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“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”

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Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In…

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Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one…

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So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours.

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Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could…

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Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With…

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Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!

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Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!

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Load every rift with ore.

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I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

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When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou…

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