Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
JOHN KEATSGive me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
JOHN KEATSWith a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
JOHN KEATSIf something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
JOHN KEATSWhatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not.
JOHN KEATSWhat is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?
JOHN KEATSTis 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 KEATSLet us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
JOHN KEATSOne of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another
JOHN KEATSI will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.
JOHN KEATSBeauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
JOHN KEATSHere are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
JOHN KEATSEven bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
JOHN KEATSThe day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
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 KEATSEvery fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
JOHN KEATSOf love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
JOHN KEATS