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

“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,”

“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.”

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

“When by my solitary hearth I sit,”

“Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds”

“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”

“Base words are uttered only by the base”

“history is what it is. it knows what it did.”

“[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.”

“Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.”

“The exceeding brightness of this early sun”

“لا تملَّ أو تغضبْ أو تكتئب”