My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
JOHN KEATS
JOHN KEATS
John Keats on imagination
“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
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John KeatsJohn Keats I don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever.
John KeatsJohn Keats And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
John KeatsJohn Keats A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
John KeatsJohn Keats I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
John KeatsJohn Keats I want a brighter word than bright.
John KeatsJohn Keats I 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 KeatsJohn Keats Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host’s Canary wine?
John KeatsJohn Keats The air is all softness.
John KeatsJohn Keats If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
John KeatsJohn Keats I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
John KeatsJohn Keats There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
John KeatsJohn Keats Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
John KeatsJohn Keats Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
John KeatsJohn Keats When 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.
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