57 Quotations by John Keats
- 21. I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.

- 22. I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

- 23. If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my mem ...

- 24. If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it better not come at all.

- 25. It appears to me that almost any man may, like the spider, spin from his own inwards his own airy ci ...

- 26. Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

- 27. Love in a hut, with water and a crust, is - Lover, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.

- 28. Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

- 29. My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

- 30. My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber ...

- 31. Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li ...

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

- 33. O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.

- 34. O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not ...

- 35. O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

- 36. O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth.

- 37. Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle i ...

- 38. Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wordi ...

- 39. Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -- it should strike the reader as a w ...

- 40. Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almos ...

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