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Best Quotes by John Keats (24)

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"My spirit is too weak—mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky." from On Seeing the Elgin Marbles · 22 ♥

"Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?" from Ode: 'Bards of Passion and of Mirth' · 20 ♥

"It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound." from On the Sea · 16 ♥

"Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon, While Porphyro upon her face doth look, Like puzzled urchin on an aged crone Who keepeth closed a wond'rous riddle-book, As spectacled she sits in chimney noo…" from The Eve of St. Agnes · 8 ♥

"Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?" from Lines on the Mermaid Tavern · 4 ♥

"There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and…" from Part II · 3 ♥

"Knowledge enormous makes a God of me." from Book III · 3 ♥

"And for her eyes—what could such eyes do there But weep, and weep, that they were born so fair?" from Part I · 2 ♥

"“To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind: I would deceive her And so leave her, But ah…" from Book IV · 2 ♥

"This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou wouldst wish thine own…" from This living hand · 2 ♥

"My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream." from Book I · 1 ♥

"But strength alone though of the Muses born241 Is like a fallen angel: trees uptorn, Darkness, and worms, and shrouds, and sepulchres Delight it; for it feeds upon the burrs And thorns of life; forge…" from Sleep and Poetry · 1 ♥

"O for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed That my own soul has to itself decreed." from Sleep and Poetry · 1 ♥

"Why, you might read two sonnets, ere they reach To where the hurrying freshnesses aye preach70 A natural sermon o'er their pebbly beds; Where swarms of minnows show their little heads, Staying their …" from 'I stood tiptoe upon a little hill' · 1 ♥

"Open afresh your round of starry folds, Ye ardent marigolds! Dry up the moisture from your golden lids, For great Apollo bids50 That in these days your praises should be sung On many harps, which he …" from 'I stood tiptoe upon a little hill' · 1 ♥

"I stood tiptoe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly-leaved and finely taper…" from 'I stood tiptoe upon a little hill' · 1 ♥

"The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more! O weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core. Dry your eyes! O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies…" from Shed no tear! O shed no tear! · 1 ♥

"And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!" from Ode to Psyche

"So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours" from Ode to Psyche

"Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about…" from Book I

"I made a garland for her head, And bracelets too, and fragrant zone; She look'd at me as she did love, And made sweet moan." from La Belle Dame sans Merci

"in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits." from Book I

"A drainless shower Of light is Poesy; 't is the supreme of power; 'T is might half slumb'ring on its own right arm." from Sleep and Poetry

"Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low-hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak:90 Or perhaps, to sho…" from 'I stood tiptoe upon a little hill'

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