Stop and consider! life is but a day
JOHN KEATSStop and consider! life is but a day
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 KEATSDeath is Life’s high meed.
JOHN KEATSFanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
JOHN KEATSThe excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
JOHN KEATSThat which is creative must create itself.
JOHN KEATSI have loved the principle of beauty in all things.
JOHN KEATSWe have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
JOHN KEATSI have so much of you in my heart.
JOHN KEATSLet us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
JOHN KEATSPhilosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine – Unweave a rainbow.
JOHN KEATSAll writing is a form of prayer.
JOHN KEATSMany have original minds who do not think it – they are led away by custom!
JOHN KEATSOne of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
JOHN KEATSThe air is all softness.
JOHN KEATSHear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
JOHN KEATS