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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
— John Keats
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. — John Keats
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. — John Keats
Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.
— John Keats
O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.
— John Keats
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
— John Keats
You are to me an object so intensely desirable that the air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy
— John Keats
I cannot capture your grace in words; I am profoundly enchanted by the flowing complexity in you.
— John Keats
I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.
— John Keats
I look upon fine phrases as a lover. - John Keats
— Beatrice K. Otto
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
— John Keats
31To cease upon the midnight with no pain
— John Keats
All writing is a form of prayer.
— John Keats
My chest of books divide amongst my friends--
— John Keats
I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
— John Keats
But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?
— John Keats
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
— John Keats
Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!
— John Keats
Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!
— John Keats
The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
— John Keats
I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.
— John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
— John Keats
For so delicious were the words she sung,it seem'd he had loved them a whole summer long.
— John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
— John Keats
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.
— John Keats
Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
— John Keats
Works of genius are the first things in the world.
— John Keats
The same that oft-times hath
charm'd magic casements,
opening on the foam
of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. — John Keats
charm'd magic casements,
opening on the foam
of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. — John Keats
Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer
— John Keats
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
— John Keats
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
— John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.
— John Keats
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.
— John Keats
Touch'd with miseries
She seem'd at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
- Lamia (John Keats) — John Keats
She seem'd at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
- Lamia (John Keats) — John Keats
Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
— John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
— John Keats
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
— John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
— John Keats
Tis "the witching time of night", / Orbed is the moon and bright, / And the stars they glisten, glisten, / Seeming with bright eyes to listen -
— John Keats
I see a lily on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever dew;
And on thy cheek a fading rose
Fast withereth too. — John Keats
With anguish moist and fever dew;
And on thy cheek a fading rose
Fast withereth too. — John Keats
There is a budding morrow in midnight.
— John Keats
Here lies one whose name was writ on water.
— John Keats
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know.
— John Keats
The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
— John Keats
No one can usurp the heights ...
But those to whom the miseries of the world
Are misery, and will not let them rest. — John Keats
But those to whom the miseries of the world
Are misery, and will not let them rest. — John Keats
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind
about nothing
to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. — John Keats
about nothing
to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. — John Keats
His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,
Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; — John Keats
Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; — John Keats
Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu
— John Keats
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.
— John B. S. Haldane
Death is Life's high meed.
— John Keats
One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another
— John Keats
I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
— John Keats
The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.
— John Keats
Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream.
— John Keats
For many a time I have been half in love with easeful death. Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, to take into the air my quiet breath
— John Keats
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
— John Keats
She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around ...
— John Keats
Load every rift with ore.
— John Keats
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
— John Keats
O aching time! O moments big as years!
— John Keats
That which is creative must create itself.
— John Keats