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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. — John Keats

One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see. — Ezra Jack Keats

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old. — Erica Jong

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

It's ridiculous to accept on a blog or in a forum speech what would be seen as hooliganism or delinquency if practiced in a public space."37 — Danielle Keats Citron

What is this world's delight,
Lightening that mocks the night,
Brief as even as bright — John Keats

Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne. — 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

Dancing music, music sad,
Both together, sane and mad ... — 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

I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel — John Keats

Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive. — John Keats

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour ... — 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

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more Beautiful than Beauty's self. — John Keats

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one! — John Keats

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. — 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

Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit. — 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

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death. — John Keats

Life is but a day:
A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way
From a tree's summit — John Keats

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

Open wide the mind's cage-door,
She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar. — 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

Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer. — 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

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they — John Keats

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers. — John Keats

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer — John Keats

I must choose between despair and Energy--I choose the latter. — John Keats

Load every rift with ore. — John Keats

Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death. — John Keats

Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making. — John Keats

I believe in nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of the imagination. - JOHN KEATS — Jandy Nelson

O aching time! O moments big as years! — 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

There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality. — John Keats

There is a budding morrow in midnight. — 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

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. — John Keats

One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another — John Keats

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them. — Gregory Orr

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world. — John Keats

What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently? — John Keats

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies. — John Keats

No, for God's sake, I'm not bloody suicidal. And I'm not proposing, either. Forget I said anything. — Michael Grant

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

Here lies one whose name was writ on water. — John Keats

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. — John Keats

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. — Jane Campion

Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear. — John Keats

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song! — John Keats

A moment's thought is passion's passing knell. — John Keats

And how they kist each other's tremulous eyes. — John Keats

What had John Keats said about Negative Capability - holding two opposite ideas in one's mind at the same time without straining to reconcile them? — Dan Simmons

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet. — John Keats

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,
Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; — John Keats

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. — Irving Layton

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

Death is Life's high meed. — John Keats

If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true. — 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

Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice is leaning on mine. — David Mitchell

Was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music
do I wake or sleep? — John Keats

A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves. — John Keats

She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around ... — John Keats

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. — John Keats

That which is creative must create itself. — John Keats

Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it. — James Russell Lowell

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. — John Keats

O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? — 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

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

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

Life is divine Chaos. It's messy, and it's supposed to be that way. — John Keats

Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate. — Nicholas Roe

The two divinest things the world has got - A lovely woman and a rural spot. — John Keats

Already with thee! tender is the night ...
But here there is no light ... — 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

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all. — John Keats

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us. — 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

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect. — John Keats

The excellence of every Art is its intensity. — John Keats

I feel confident I should have been a rebel Angel had the opportunity been mine. — 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