Give me books, fruit, French wine, fine weather, and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
John Keats
French Wine, Outdoor Music, Simple Pleasures, Wine, Music, Pleasures
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More John Keats Quotes
“Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.” John Keats
Alertness Countenance, Poetry Ambition, Passing Love, Poetry, Ambition, Love
John Keats Alertness Countenance, Poetry Ambition, Passing Love, Poetry, Ambition, Love“The silver, snarling trumpets ’gan to chide.” John Keats
Conflict, Sound, Drama, Tension, Discord, Symbolism
John Keats Conflict, Sound, Drama, Tension, Discord, Symbolism“Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.” John Keats
Easeful Death, Half Love, Mortal Rest, Death, Love, Rest
John Keats Easeful Death, Half Love, Mortal Rest, Death, Love, Rest“Knowing well that my life must be passed in fatigue and and trouble, I have been endeavouring to wean myself from you: for to myself alone what can be much of a misery? As far as they regard myself I can despise all events: but I cannot cease to love you.” John Keats
Fatigue Trouble, Misery Love, Enduring Affection, Fatigue, Love, Misery
John Keats Fatigue Trouble, Misery Love, Enduring Affection, Fatigue, Love, Misery“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.” John Keats
Poet Identity, Unpoetical Existence, Continual Informing, Poet, Identity, Existence
John Keats Poet Identity, Unpoetical Existence, Continual Informing, Poet, Identity, Existence“You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.” John Keats
Unbearable Ache, Hour Sacrifice, Deep Yearning, Ache, Sacrifice, Yearning
John Keats Unbearable Ache, Hour Sacrifice, Deep Yearning, Ache, Sacrifice, Yearning“I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.” John Keats
Longing, Dependence, Love, Melancholy, Attachment, Emotions
John Keats Longing, Dependence, Love, Melancholy, Attachment, Emotions“If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.” John Keats
Natural Poetry, Tree Leaves, Artistic Nature, Poetry, Leaves, Nature
John Keats Natural Poetry, Tree Leaves, Artistic Nature, Poetry, Leaves, Nature“I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.” John Keats
Universal Beauty, Loved Principle, Aesthetic Harmony, Beauty, Principle, Harmony
John Keats Universal Beauty, Loved Principle, Aesthetic Harmony, Beauty, Principle, Harmony“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
Unobtrusive Poetry, Soulful Art, Subtle Impact, Poetry, Soul, Impact
John Keats Unobtrusive Poetry, Soulful Art, Subtle Impact, Poetry, Soul, Impact“You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.” John Keats
Creativity, Imagination, Perception, Difference, Introspection, Artistry
John Keats Creativity, Imagination, Perception, Difference, Introspection, Artistry“How horrid was the chance of slipping into the ground instead of into your arms – the difference is amazing Love. Death must come at last; Man must die, as Shallow says; but before that is my fate I fain would try what more pleasures than you have given, so sweet a creature as you can give.” John Keats
Amazing Love, Sweet Creature, Slipping Ground, Love, Creature, Death
John Keats Amazing Love, Sweet Creature, Slipping Ground, Love, Creature, Death“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” John Keats
Under Water, Scarcely Kick, Somber Temper, Water, Despair, Calm
John Keats Under Water, Scarcely Kick, Somber Temper, Water, Despair, Calm“Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.” John Keats
Dreaming Thing, Fever Self, Inner Vision, Dreaming, Fever, Vision
John Keats Dreaming Thing, Fever Self, Inner Vision, Dreaming, Fever, Vision“Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream.” John Keats
Immortal Dream, Divine Pleasure, Godly Vision, Dream, Pleasure, Vision
John Keats Immortal Dream, Divine Pleasure, Godly Vision, Dream, Pleasure, Vision“Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?” John Keats
Poetry, Emotion, Transcendence, Duality, Heaven, Remembrance
John Keats Poetry, Emotion, Transcendence, Duality, Heaven, Remembrance“I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.” John Keats
Fading Rose, Fever Dew, Anguish Beauty, Rose, Dew, Anguish
John Keats Fading Rose, Fever Dew, Anguish Beauty, Rose, Dew, Anguish“The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream—he awoke and found it truth.” John Keats
Adam’s Dream, Found Truth, Dream Truth, Imagination, Dream, Truth
John Keats Adam’s Dream, Found Truth, Dream Truth, Imagination, Dream, Truth