I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
JOHN KEATSI would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
JOHN KEATSI am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
JOHN KEATSWhere the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
JOHN KEATSYou cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.
JOHN KEATSIf poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
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 KEATSEvery mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
JOHN KEATSWherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
JOHN KEATSDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATSMy imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
JOHN KEATSLand and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
JOHN KEATSI wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
JOHN KEATSHear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
JOHN KEATSIts better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
JOHN KEATSThe feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
JOHN KEATSDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATS