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

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

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

“When I have fears that I may cease to be”

“Open wide the mind's cage-door,”

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”

“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in the rubbish.”

“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.”

“When I feel my poetry touches someone's heart or mind, I'm fulfilled.”

“However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.”

“there have been so many times”

“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you.”

“Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.”