"A long poem is a test of invention……" — John Keats
"A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder."
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John Keats
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327 Quotes by John Keats
John Keats has 327 quotes on this site.
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
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I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again...
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Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.
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As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I…
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A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands…
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Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.
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That queen of secrecy, the violet.
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Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I…
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The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek…
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
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More Fancy Quotes
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a…
— Paul Auster
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I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy…
— Tyra Banks
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I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a…
— Drew Barrymore
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I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want…
— Drew Barrymore
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The…
— Scott Adams
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I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.
— Glenn Beck
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My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the…
— Ben Affleck
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They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat,…
— Jo Brand
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The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
— Steve Carell
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When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted…
— Benjamin Carson
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