John Keats Quotes About Death

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  • My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

    John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.178
  • Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

    John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press
  • Death is Life's high meed.

    John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes Baron Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.390
  • Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

    Quoted in Richard Monckton Milnes, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848)
  • Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

    John Keats (2015). “Sonnets (Complete Edition): 63 Sonnets from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, influenced by John Milton and Edmund Spenser, and one of the greatest lyric poets in English Literature, alongside William Shakespeare”, p.345, e-artnow
  • How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not 'babble,' I think of green fields; I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have know from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with superhuman fancy.

  • I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.

    In a letter from Joseph Severn to John Taylor, 6 March 1821, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 378
  • When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

  • I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

    In a letter from Joseph Severn to John Taylor, 6 March 1821, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 378
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