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 KEATSI 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 KEATSScenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
JOHN KEATSBeauty is truth, truth beauty.
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 KEATSI would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
JOHN KEATSYou have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.
JOHN KEATSGive me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
JOHN KEATSSome say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
JOHN KEATSDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
JOHN KEATSIts better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
JOHN KEATSThere is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
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 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 KEATSWhen 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.
JOHN KEATSFanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
JOHN KEATSTo silence gossip, don’t repeat it.
JOHN KEATS