John Keats Quotes

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

“You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.”

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

“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.”

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through bubbling honey, for Love's sake

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips
Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,
Turning to Poison while the bee-mouth sips:
Ay, in the very temple of delight
Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Open wide the mind's cage-door.