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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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'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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    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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    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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    Even if the transfer worked, the human with the John Keats persona would not be "Johnny."†  (source)
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    Keats.†  (source)
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