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

“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,”

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,”

“I bade good morrow,”

“I have clung”

“Open wide the mind's cage-door,”

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”

“When you part from your friend, you grieve not;”

“But no, I was out for stars:”

“[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.”

“We never know we go,—when we are going”

“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people come and go as they please, because you’re simply too unimpressed to care. You let people in who you really shouldn’t let in, and you let them walk around for a while, use your bed and use your books, and await the day when they simply get bored and leave. You’re still not bothered, though you knew they shouldn’t have been let in in the first place, but still you just sit there, apathetic like a beggar in the desert.”