John Keats Quotes - Page 2

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats
I do think the barsThat kept my spirit in are burst - that IAm sailing with thee through the dizzy sky!How beautiful thou art!
John Keats
I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
John Keats
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and blessWith fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shellsWith a sweet kernel; to set budding more,And still more, later flowers for the bees,Until they think warm days will never cease,For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
John Keats
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
John Keats
You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time...Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.
John Keats
To SorrowI bade good morrow,And thought to leave her far away behind;But cheerly, cheerly,She loves me dearly;She is so constant to me, and so kind.
John Keats
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not
John Keats
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.
John Keats
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
The world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.
John Keats
Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death,Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,To take into the air my quiet breath.
John Keats
Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death...
John Keats
Darkling I listen; and, for many a timet I have been half in love with easeful Death,t Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,t To take into the air my quiet breath;t Now more than ever seems it rich to die,To cease upon the midnight with no pain,While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroadt In such an ecstasy!
John Keats
Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.
John Keats
When by my solitary hearth I sit,When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit,And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head.
John Keats
Wherein lies happiness? In that which becksOur ready minds to fellowship divine,A fellowship with essence; till we shine,Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. BeholdThe clear religion of heaven!
John Keats
If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.
John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in the rubbish.
John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
John Keats
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
John Keats
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
John Keats
Here lies one whose name was writ on water.
John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
John Keats
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
John Keats
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
John Keats
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
John Keats
I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could die for you.My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.
John Keats