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.
Quote, saying and phrase by: John Keats
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and…
The 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 undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.
Quote, saying and phrase by: John Keats
The only means of strengthening one’s in…
The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
Quote, saying and phrase by: John Keats
The problems of the world cannot possibl…
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.
Quote, saying and phrase by: John Keats
There is a budding morrow in midnight….
There is a budding morrow in midnight.
Quote, saying and phrase by: John Keats
Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is…
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
Quote, saying and phrase by: John Keats
What the imagination seizes as beauty mu…
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
Quote, saying and phrase by: John Keats