Collected Meditations
Showing 38 quotesI 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
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.— John Keats
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
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.— John Keats
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.— John Keats
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.— John Keats
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
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.— John Keats
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.— John Keats
topics:
Wisdom
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
topics:
Religion