Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATSWhen I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
More John Keats Quotes
-
-
Stop and consider! life is but a day
JOHN KEATS -
Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.
JOHN KEATS -
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
JOHN KEATS -
Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
JOHN KEATS -
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
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 -
Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
JOHN KEATS -
That queen of secrecy, the violet.
JOHN KEATS -
Tis 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 KEATS -
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
JOHN KEATS -
My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
JOHN KEATS -
Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
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 -
All writing is a form of prayer.
JOHN KEATS -
She press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
JOHN KEATS






