Poetry Quote by John Keats — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--”

“Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!”

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard”

“When by my solitary hearth I sit,”

““I have been astonished that men could die martyrs”

“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.”

“All a poet can do today is warn.”

“I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.”

“Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.”

“I searched for my own heart”

“The night has a thousand eyes,”

“I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same,”