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

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”

“I have clung”

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

“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.”

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard”

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

“This is how we dreamed. Moonlight in our mouths, love on our lips and summer in our skies.”

“I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.”

“If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most.”

“FRIDA KAHLO TO MARTY MCCONNELL”

“If Springtime crawls out of the”

“Poetry, if it has too many layers, should at least lead readers to the openings of the caves the poet built with words and then let them explore on their own! If it does not happen, the travellers might return even without knocking at all!”