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

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,”

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time”

“Open wide the mind's cage-door,”

“Life is but a day;”

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

“His head propped on a stack of poetry books he’d brought from the library. Almost all of them had been inscribed on the inside cover by a James Herondale, who had neatly written out his favorite lines.”

“I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.”

“But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.”

“You call it hope — that fire of fire!”

“Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible connotation from each of them, every temporary pun, every direct or indirect connection - as if a word could become an object by mere addition of consequences. Others pick up words from the streets, from their bars, from their offices and display them proudly in their poems as if they were shouting, "See what I have collected from the American language. Look at my butterflies, my stamps, my old shoes!" What does one do with all this crap?”