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The Eloquence of Keats

By Simran Khurana, About.com Guide

John Keats's poems are full of vivid imagery that lends an aesthetic appeal to his writings. Though his life was wrought with difficulties, Keats's passion for poetry survived against all odds, even stinging criticism. A victim of tuberculosis, John Keats lived a very short life. But in this short span of time, he left behind a treasure trove of timeless poems. His poems linger on romance and beauty; the joys that he never enjoyed. Keats's words are full of eloquence and style.

Beauty
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

Courage
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

Love
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Love
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

Death
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

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

Proverb
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

Experience
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Love
I wish to beleave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

Poetry
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.

Ambition
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Radicalism
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

Love
Love is my religion -- I could die for it.

Nature
The poetry of the earth is never dead.

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

Imagination
Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

Hope
There is a budding morrow in midnight.

Love
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.

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

Human Nature
Scenery is fine -- but human nature is finer.

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