Frases de John Keats

John Keats foi um poeta inglês. Foi o último dos poetas românticos do país, e, aos 25, o mais jovem a morrer. Juntamente com Lord Byron e Percy Bysshe Shelley, foi uma das principais figuras da segunda geração do movimento romântico, apesar de sua obra ter começado a ser publicada apenas quatro anos antes de sua morte. Durante sua vida, seus poemas não foram geralmente bem recebidos pelos críticos; sua reputação, no entanto, cresceu à medida que ele u uma influência póstuma significativa em diversos poetas posteriores, como Alfred Tennyson e Wilfred Owen.

A poesia de Keats é caracterizada por um imaginário sensual, mais visível na sua série de odes. Atualmente seus poemas e cartas são consideradas entre as obras mais populares e analisadas na literatura inglesa. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Outubro 1795 – 23. Fevereiro 1821
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John Keats Frases famosas

“Se a poesia não surgir tão naturalmente como as folhas de uma árvore, é melhor que não surja mesmo.”

That if poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.
"The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats" - página 289, John Keats, Horace Elisha Scudder - Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1899 - 473 páginas

John Keats frases e citações

John Keats: Frases em inglês

“The poetry of earth is never dead.”

" Sonnet. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket http://www.bartleby.com/126/28.html"
Poems (1817)

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”

John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn

Stanza 2
Poems (1820), Ode on a Grecian Urn
Variante: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.
Fonte: Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems
Contexto: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.
Contexto: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced”

Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (February 14-May 3, 1819)
Letters (1817–1820)
Variante: Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced

“Shakespeare led a life of allegory: his works are the comments on it.”

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (February 14 - May 3, 1819)
Letters (1817–1820)
Contexto: A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory — and very few eyes can see the mystery of life — a life like the Scriptures, figurative... Lord Byron cuts a figure, but he is not figurative. Shakespeare led a life of allegory: his works are the comments on it.

“Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.”

"Faery Songs", I (1818)
Contexto: 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.

“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”

Fonte: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.”

Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
Contexto: Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: we read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

“I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.”

Fonte: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
Ye have left your souls on earth!
Have ye souls in heaven too,
Double-lived in regions new?”

" Ode http://www.bartleby.com/126/44.html", The Fair Maid of the Inn
Poems (1820)

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

Fonte: Endymion: A Poetic Romance