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John Keats
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    I want to share something Virginia Woolf wrote: 'English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache....The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.'†  (source)
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    Just the names-all the Greeks, of course, and Descartes, Locke, Shaftesbury, Leibniz, Vico, Eberhard, Herder, Schiller, Kant, Rilke, Keats, Schelling, and a hundred others, loaded all the cannon and made them ready to fire.†  (source)
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    Even as a schoolboy, I loved John Keats's ode "To Autumn" for being an ark of the covenant between language and sensation; as an adolescent, I loved Gerard Manley Hopkins for the intensity of his exclamations which were also equations for a rapture and an ache I didn't fully know I knew until I read him; I loved Robert Frost for his farmer's accuracy and his wily down-to-earthness; and Chaucer too for much the same reasons.†  (source)
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    And so did Keats, Shakespeare and Petrarch, and all the rest, and it was in The Romaunt of the Rose.†  (source)
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    The library was a huge, three-story, graystone building, with thick Ionic columns, and with the words BEAUTY IS TRUTH, TRUTH BEAUTY, THAT IS ALL YE KNOW ON EARTH, AND ALL YE NEED TO KNOW—JOHN KEATS engraved in the stone over its four glass entrance doors.†  (source)
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    Gopher Prairie with its celebrated eleven miles of cement walk....I wonder how much of the cement is made out of the tombstones of John Keatses?†  (source)
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    I'd spent the past four years locked away in the padded room of college, reading Keats and Eudora Welty and worrying over term papers.†  (source)
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    Certainly John Keats had no idea that caring for his brother Tom was sealing his own doom, any more than the Brontes knew what hit them.†  (source)
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    Prof read Keats.†  (source)
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    I said: This is the earth of Shakespeare, and Milton, and John Keats and, by God, what's more, it's mine as well!†  (source)
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    I can think of no better definition than Keats': 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.†  (source)
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    Carol nodded in the manner of a lady being kind to a tradesman, and one of her selves sneered, "Our Erik is indeed a lost John Keats."†  (source)
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    The walk toward the American Express past the odorous confectioneries of the Via Nationale, through the foul tunnel up to the Spanish Steps, where his spirit soared before the flower stalls and the house where Keats had died.†  (source)
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