Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive. John Keats More Quotes by John Keats More Quotes From John Keats His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed. John Keats lays eye hands I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty. John Keats perception truth beauty Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink. John Keats flower eye knowledge You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. John Keats rift artist might He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others. His intense mind and powerful feelings would, I truly believe, have done the world some service, had his life been spared but he was of too sensitive a nature and thus he was destroyed! John Keats powerful feelings believe It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. John Keats atheism literature men So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud, John Keats hope dark sweet I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. John Keats sad depression water Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel. John Keats hate grace men Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees. John Keats blow tree wind Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. John Keats blame criticism men A quote about drinking is a joy forever John Keats drinking forever joy Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. John Keats reading-poetry remembrance inspirational I came to feel how far above John Keats fickle kissing pride Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun. John Keats vain sun feelings The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university. John Keats innate university genius The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth. John Keats imagination dream may There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. John Keats heroism nature fire Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. John Keats angel wings philosophy Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair. John Keats sadness silence stars
