one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another John Keats More Quotes by John Keats More Quotes From John Keats Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse' d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! John Keats pain time art Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings? John Keats hearing O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed. John Keats deeds soul years The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself. John Keats work-out law men To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty John Keats calm naked bears When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain". John Keats brain may death Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen. John Keats light darkness sight We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject. - How beautiful are the retired flowers! how would they lose their beauty were they to throng into the highway crying out, "admire me I am a violet! dote upon me I am a primrose!" John Keats hate flower beautiful No one can usurp the heights... John Keats height misery world I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again. John Keats without-you crush love A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory. John Keats allegory men ... Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved, And been well nurtured in his mother tongue. John Keats mother dream art The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. John Keats Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they John Keats Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. John Keats I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination. John Keats I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not. John Keats I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. John Keats What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth. John Keats