John KeatsSevern - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come. ✨ John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848… ▶371DeathLife
John KeatsI don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever371Thought
John KeatsO for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! ✨ Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 185351LifeThought
John KeatsLove is my religion - I could die for it. ✨ John Keats (1820). The Complete Works of John Keats, p.130351DeathLove
John KeatsThe imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecid… ▶373Life
John KeatsThrough the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul. ✨ John Keats (1818). Endymion: A Poetic Romance, p.30341Love
John KeatsPensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes. ✨ John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). Complete Poems, p.359, Harvard University Press341Truth
John KeatsFour seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men. ✨ 'The Human Seasons' (1819)363HumanityThought
John KeatsYou are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. ✨ John Keats (1820). The Complete Works of John Keats, p.162363Sadness
John KeatsHow I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not feel it quarrelling with one's liver. No; 'tis rather a … ▶364Thought
John KeatsGive me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.331Reading
John KeatsTheir woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne. ✨ John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard, p.38, Harvard U… ▶342Reading
John KeatsWine is only sweet to happy men. ✨ John Keats (2015). John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biograp… ▶365LifeLove
John KeatsHere lies one whose name was writ in water. ✨ Quoted in Richard Monckton Milnes, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848)376Life
John KeatsYou are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I wa… ▶321HopeLoveTime
John KeatsFade far away, dissolve, and quite forget. ✨ 'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 3343Love
John KeatsAsk yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all… ▶343HopeLove
John KeatsLike a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest. ✨ John Keats, The Eve Of St. Agnes366Hope
John KeatsFor Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say, ‘Thou art no Poet may’st… ▶322LifeLove
John KeatsWe have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.333Politics
John KeatsI always made an awkward bow. ✨ Letter to Charles Armitage Brown, 30 Nov. 1820334Truth
John KeatsThis living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou wo… ▶301LifeLove
John KeatsThere 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 a… ▶367Humanity
John KeatsDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? ✨ John Keats (2013). Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustr… ▶356Sadness
John KeatsMy chest of books divide amongst my friends. ✨ Last poem which doubled as his last will and testament,312Reading
John Keatswas it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep? ✨ 'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8345Thought
John KeatsI would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity. ✨ John Keats (2002). Selected Letters, p.80, Oxford University Press, USA367Reflection
John Keats--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. ✨ 'When I have fears that I may cease to be' (written 1818)324LoveThought
John KeatsO Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings ✨ John Keats (1859). The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life, p.372302Life
John KeatsI have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths. ✨ John Keats (2015). Sonnets (Complete Edition): 63 Sonnets from… ▶291LoveReading
