Quotes from John Keats
And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
- John Keats
I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.
- John Keats
I must choose between despair and Energy??I choose the latter.
- John Keats
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
- John Keats
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses
- John Keats
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
- John Keats
Love is my religion--I could die for it.
- John Keats
Softly the breezes from the forest came, Softly they blew aside the taper's flame; Clear was the song from Philomel's far bower; Grateful the incense from the lime-tree flower; Mysterious, wild, the far-heard trumpet's tone; Lovely the moon in ether, all alone: Sweet too, the converse of these happy mortals, As that of busy spirits when the portals Are closing in the west; or that soft humming We hear around when Hesperus is coming. Sweet be their sleep.
- John Keats
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.
- John Keats
I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!
- John Keats
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
- John Keats
And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun/ And she forgot the blue above the trees,/ And she forgot the dells where waters run,/ And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze;/ She had no knowledge when the day was done,/ And the new morn she saw not: but in peace/ Hung over her sweet basil evermore,/ And moisten'd it with tears unto the core.
- John Keats