John Keats Quotes

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The moon put forth a little diamond peak No bigger than an unobserved star, Or tiny point of fairy scimitar.

John Keats
What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

John Keats
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.

John Keats
Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live.

John Keats
O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

John Keats
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.

John Keats
I came to feel how far above
All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood,
All earthly pleasure, all imagined good,
Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.

John Keats
In the long vista of the years to roll, Let me not see my country's honor fade; Oh! let me see our land retain its soul! Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.

John Keats
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

John Keats
Touch has a memory. O say, love say,
What can I do to kill it and be free
In my old liberty?

John Keats
He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others. His intense mind and powerful feelings would, I truly believe, have done the world some service, had his life been spared but he was of too sensitive a nature and thus he was destroyed!

John Keats
Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.

John Keats
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

John Keats
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

John Keats
Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved, And been well nurtured in his mother tongue.

John Keats
I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

John Keats
And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

John Keats