How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
JOHN KEATSHow does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
JOHN KEATSWhere the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
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 KEATSLove is my religion – I could die for it.
JOHN KEATSNothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
JOHN KEATSThe poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
JOHN KEATSThat which is creative must create itself.
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 KEATSWe have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
JOHN KEATSI will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
JOHN KEATSAnd how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.
JOHN KEATSBut the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.
JOHN KEATSAnd when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
JOHN KEATSNothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATSYou are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
JOHN KEATSThe day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
JOHN KEATS