We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
JOHN KEATSWe read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
JOHN KEATSThat which is creative must create itself.
JOHN KEATSWith a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
JOHN KEATSAs the Swiss inscription says: “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
JOHN KEATSHealth is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.
JOHN KEATSEven bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
JOHN KEATSParting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
JOHN KEATSNothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATSTo stay youthful, stay useful.
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 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 KEATSI would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
JOHN KEATSLet us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
JOHN KEATSSome say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
JOHN KEATSThat queen of secrecy, the violet.
JOHN KEATSThou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
JOHN KEATS