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 1 Share Now -
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. - John Keats 4 Share Now -
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? - John Keats 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that. - John Keats 7 Share Now -
Poetry 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 8 Share Now -
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. - John Keats 10 Share Now -
