The 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 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 KEATSHow does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they.
JOHN KEATSFailure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
JOHN KEATSWhere the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
JOHN KEATSThe day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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 KEATSI am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
JOHN KEATSThere is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.
JOHN KEATSFanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
JOHN KEATSDon’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
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 KEATSI must choose between despair and Energy – I choose the latter.
JOHN KEATSA thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
JOHN KEATSShe press’d his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
JOHN KEATSAll writing is a form of prayer.
JOHN KEATSI think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
JOHN KEATS