I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of whi…

John Keats
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I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me. ✨ John Keats (2015). John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn (Unabridged): From one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, best known for his Odes, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to Indolence, Ode to Psyche, Ode to Fanny, The Eve of St. Agnes, Lamia, Hyperion and more, p.192, e-artnow
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I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity. ✨ John Keats (2002). Selected Letters, p.80, Oxford University Press, USA
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses. ✨ Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 279
Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir. ✨ John Keats (1818). The Complete Works of John Keats, p.132
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ✨ 'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229
I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too. ✨ 'La belle dame sans merci' (1820) st. 3

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