Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
JOHN KEATSGive me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
JOHN KEATSThat which is creative must create itself.
JOHN KEATSI love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
JOHN KEATSI wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
JOHN KEATSI wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
JOHN KEATSIs 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 KEATSA hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
JOHN KEATSI must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
JOHN KEATSTis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
JOHN KEATSEven bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
JOHN KEATSLand and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
JOHN KEATSI would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
JOHN KEATSTo stay youthful, stay useful.
JOHN KEATSHow does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
JOHN KEATSHear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
JOHN KEATSI am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
JOHN KEATS