An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
JOHN KEATSAn extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
JOHN KEATSStop and consider! life is but a day
JOHN KEATSI have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
JOHN KEATSO aching time! O moments big as years!
JOHN KEATSAs 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 KEATSIf something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
JOHN KEATSA thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
JOHN KEATSThe creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.
JOHN KEATSTo stay youthful, stay useful.
JOHN KEATSYou cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
JOHN KEATSA hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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 KEATSBeauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
JOHN KEATSI 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 KEATSMy love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
JOHN KEATSHow does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
JOHN KEATS