I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love – but if you should deny me the thousand and first – ’t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
John Keats
Longing, Love, Passion, Rejection, Heartache, Intensity
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“I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.” John Keats
Married Poem, Novel Symbolism, Literary Love, Poem, Novel, Love
John Keats Married Poem, Novel Symbolism, Literary Love, Poem, Novel, Love“I will stay very little while, for as I am in a train of writing now I fear to disturb it – let it have its course bad or good...” John Keats
Train Writing, Let Course, Fear Disturbance, Writing, Course, Creativity
John Keats Train Writing, Let Course, Fear Disturbance, Writing, Course, Creativity“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.” John Keats
Strengthened Intellect, Open Mind, Thought Freedom, Intellect, Mind, Freedom
John Keats Strengthened Intellect, Open Mind, Thought Freedom, Intellect, Mind, Freedom“As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.” John Keats
Golden Silence, Eternal Speech, Timeless Truth, Silence, Speech, Eternity
John Keats Golden Silence, Eternal Speech, Timeless Truth, Silence, Speech, Eternity“A man’s life of any worth is a continual allegory.” John Keats
Continual Allegory, Life Worth, Eternal Symbol, Life, Worth, Allegory
John Keats Continual Allegory, Life Worth, Eternal Symbol, Life, Worth, Allegory“The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.” John Keats
Peace Lost, Slumber Calm, Nostalgic Reflection, Peace, Calm, Reflection
John Keats Peace Lost, Slumber Calm, Nostalgic Reflection, Peace, Calm, Reflection“The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.” John Keats
Purpose, Determination, Creation, Vision, Intent, Existence
John Keats Purpose, Determination, Creation, Vision, Intent, Existence“On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.” John Keats
Winter Evening, Frost Silence, Chilled Night, Evening, Silence, Night
John Keats Winter Evening, Frost Silence, Chilled Night, Evening, Silence, Night“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.” John Keats
Real Experience, Life Illustration, Experiential Truth, Experience, Illustration, Truth
John Keats Real Experience, Life Illustration, Experiential Truth, Experience, Illustration, Truth“Wine is only sweet to happy men.” John Keats
Happiness, Joy, Pleasure, Intoxication, Emotions, Celebration
John Keats Happiness, Joy, Pleasure, Intoxication, Emotions, Celebration“I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not.” John Keats
Womankind Care, Keats Thought, Humble Perspective, Care, Thought, Perspective
John Keats Womankind Care, Keats Thought, Humble Perspective, Care, Thought, Perspective“Love is my religion—I could die for that.” John Keats
Love Religion, Selfless Faith, Devotional Passion, Religion, Faith, Passion
John Keats Love Religion, Selfless Faith, Devotional Passion, Religion, Faith, Passion“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.” John Keats
Imagination Beauty, Beauty Truth, Creative Vision, Beauty, Truth, Imagination
John Keats Imagination Beauty, Beauty Truth, Creative Vision, Beauty, Truth, Imagination“My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again – my Life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving – I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you.” John Keats
Selfish Love, Exquisite Misery, Consuming Affection, Love, Misery, Hope
John Keats Selfish Love, Exquisite Misery, Consuming Affection, Love, Misery, Hope“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“Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.” John Keats
Sweet Peas, Gentle Wings, Delicate Flight, Peas, Wings, Flight
John Keats Sweet Peas, Gentle Wings, Delicate Flight, Peas, Wings, Flight“My creed is love and you are its only tenet.” John Keats
Love Creed, Sole Tenet, Profound Devotion, Creed, Tenet, Devotion
John Keats Love Creed, Sole Tenet, Profound Devotion, Creed, Tenet, Devotion“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.” John Keats
Music, Emotion, Imagination, Beauty, Transcendence, Feelings
John Keats Music, Emotion, Imagination, Beauty, Transcendence, Feelings