John Keats: Trending quotes (page 6)

“Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.”

John Keats

“When it is moving on luxurious wings,
The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.”

John Keats

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Soul

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain —
To thy high requiem become a sod.”

John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

Stanza 6
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale
Source: Complete Poems and Selected Letters

Love , Death , Pain , Art

“When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love - but if you should deny me the thousand and first - 'twould put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.”

John Keats

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Love , Soul , Kiss

“Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.”

John Keats To George Felton Mathew

"To George Felton Mathew" http://www.bartleby.com/126/11.html (November 1815)

Pleasure

“You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.”

John Keats

Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 1820)
Letters (1817–1820)

“Music's golden tongue
Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.”

John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes

Stanza 3
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes

Age , Music , Tear

“As though a rose should shut and be a bud again.”

John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes

Stanza 27
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes

“But were there ever any
Writh'd not of passed joy?
The feel of not to feel it,
When there is none to heal it,
Nor numbed sense to steel it,
Was never said in rhyme.”

John Keats

"Stanzas", st. 3

Feeling , Sense , Joy

“Full on this casement shone the wintry moon,
And threw warm gules on Madeline’s fair breast,
As down she knelt for heaven’s grace and boon;
Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest.”

John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes

Stanza 25
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes

“I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of — I am, however young, writing at random — straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness — without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?”

John Keats

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (March 19, 1819)
Letters (1817–1820)

Thinking , Light , Animals

“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”

John Keats Endymion

Preface
Endymion (1818)

Failure , Hell

“O magic sleep! O comfortable bird,
That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mind
Till it is hush’d and smooth!”

John Keats Endymion

Bk. I, l. 453
Endymion (1818)

Bird , Sleep , Sea

“Some think I have lost that poetical ardour and fire 'tis said I once had- the fact is, perhaps I have; but, instead of that, I hope I shall substitute a more thoughtful and quiet power.”

John Keats

Letter to George Keats (September 21, 1819)
Letters (1817–1820)

Hope , Thinking

“For to bear all naked truths,
And to envisage circumstance, all calm,
That is the top of sovereignty.”

John Keats

Bk. II, l. 203
Hyperion: A Fragment (1819)

Truth

“Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain,
Inconstant, childish, proud, and full of fancies.”

John Keats

" Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain http://www.bartleby.com/126/10.html", st. 1
Poems (1817)

“Nor do we merely feel these essences
For one short hour; no, even as the trees
That whisper round a temple become soon
Dear as the temple’s self, so does the moon,
The passion poesy, glories infinite,
Haunt us till they become a cheering light
Unto our souls, and bound to us so fast,
That, whether there be shine, or gloom o’ercast,
They alway must be with us, or we die.”

John Keats Endymion

Bk. I, l. 25
Endymion (1818)

Feeling , Soul , Tree , Light

“I scarcely remember counting upon happiness — I look not for it if it be not in the present hour — nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.”

John Keats

Letter to Benjamin Bailey (November 22, 1817)
Letters (1817–1820)

Sun , Parting , Happiness

“E’en like the passage of an angel’s tear
That falls through the clear ether silently.”

John Keats

"Sonnet. To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent"
Poems (1817)

Angels , Tear

“The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast.”

John Keats

Sonnet, The Day is gone; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)