Quote

So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud, Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.

John Keats

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
Judge-Rapporteur
Physician
Poet
Rounds
Pinions
Sweet
Shroud
Thoughts
Shrouds
Influence
Waving
Head
Celestial
Dark
Shed
Hope
Silver
Spirit
Round

More quotes by John Keats

Image
Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.
John Keats
Image
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
Image
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.
John Keats
Image
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
John Keats
Image
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John Keats
Image
What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently?
John Keats
Image
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
Image
I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.
John Keats
Image
The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
John Keats
Image
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.
John Keats
Image
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats
Image
Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
John Keats
Image
I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not.
John Keats
Image
Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
John Keats
Image
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest the last smile the brightest the last movement the gracefullest.
John Keats
Image
I will clamber through the clouds and exist.
John Keats
Image
Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.
John Keats
Image
I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.
John Keats
Image
To stay youthful, stay useful.
John Keats
Image
Works of genius are the first things in the world.
John Keats