Quotes from John Keats
Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
- John Keats
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
- John Keats
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.
- John Keats
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.
- John Keats
Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
- John Keats
The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
- John Keats
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
- John Keats
O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.
- John Keats
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.
- John Keats
Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.
- John Keats
It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.
- John Keats
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
- John Keats