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Letter "J" » John Keats Quotes
«But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, / And hides the green hill in an April shroud; / Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.»
«Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; / Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared, / Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.»
«Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink»
«Souls of poets dead and gone, / What Elysium have ye known, / Happy field or mossy cavern, / Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? / Have ye tippled drink more fine / Than mine host's Canary wine?»
«`If I should die', said I to myself, `I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.'»
«Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,/ Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart / Only to meet again more close.»
«Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
Among the, commonplace, commonplaces, crowd, famous, individually, made-up, throng, thronged, thronging
«When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know»
«A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing...»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bower, bowers, breathing, increases, keep quiet, loveliness, nothingness, sleeping beauty, Sweet Dreams
«Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
excess, of his own, reader, remembrance, remembrances, singularities, singularity, strike, surprise, wording, wordings
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