Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host’s Canary wine?
JOHN KEATSWith a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
More John Keats Quotes
-
-
I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
JOHN KEATS -
Death is Life’s high meed.
JOHN KEATS -
I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
JOHN KEATS -
I want a brighter word than bright.
JOHN KEATS -
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
JOHN KEATS -
But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
JOHN KEATS -
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
JOHN KEATS -
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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 -
As the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
JOHN KEATS -
Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
JOHN KEATS -
Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
JOHN KEATS -
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
JOHN KEATS -
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
JOHN KEATS -
She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
JOHN KEATS