Letters of John Keats Quotes
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Letters of John Keats Quotes
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“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“The world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears,
and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries,
Tonight if I may guess, thy beauty wears a smile of such delight,
As brilliant and as bright
As when with ravished, aching, nassal eyes,
Lost in a soft amaze
I gaze, I gaze”
― Letters of John Keats
and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries,
Tonight if I may guess, thy beauty wears a smile of such delight,
As brilliant and as bright
As when with ravished, aching, nassal eyes,
Lost in a soft amaze
I gaze, I gaze”
― Letters of John Keats
“I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death.”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“Even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself: but from some character in whose soul I now live.”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“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.”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“I think 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.”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“I go amongst the buildings of a city and I see a Man hurrying along - to what?”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats
“I was never afraid of failure;
for I would sooner fail
than not be among the greatest.”
― Letters of John Keats
for I would sooner fail
than not be among the greatest.”
― Letters of John Keats
“at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, - 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”
― Letters of John Keats
― Letters of John Keats