03c. 1808 ADFor axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.John Keats / quote ↗
05c. 1808 ADThere 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.John Keats / quote ↗
07c. 1808 ADIf I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.John Keats / quote ↗
08c. 1808 ADWherein lies happiness? In that which becksOur ready minds to fellowship divine,A fellowship with essence; till we shine,Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. BeholdThe clear religion of heaven!John Keats / quote ↗
09c. 1808 ADWhen by my solitary hearth I sit,When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit,And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head.John Keats / quote ↗
10c. 1808 ADYes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.John Keats / quote ↗
11c. 1808 ADDarkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd 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 / quote ↗
12c. 1808 ADDarkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death...John Keats / quote ↗
13c. 1808 ADDarkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death,Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,To take into the air my quiet breath.John Keats / quote ↗
14c. 1808 ADThe world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.John Keats / quote ↗
16c. 1808 ADHeard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.John Keats / quote ↗
17c. 1808 ADWhatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or notJohn Keats / quote ↗
18c. 1808 ADYou 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 was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time...Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.John Keats / quote ↗
19c. 1808 ADIf poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.John Keats / quote ↗
20c. 1808 ADSeason of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and blessWith fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shellsWith a sweet kernel; to set budding more,And still more, later flowers for the bees,Until they think warm days will never cease,For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.John Keats / quote ↗
21c. 1808 ADI wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.John Keats / quote ↗
22c. 1808 ADI do think the barsThat kept my spirit in are burst - that IAm sailing with thee through the dizzy sky!How beautiful thou art!John Keats / quote ↗
23c. 1808 ADPoetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.John Keats / quote ↗
