“O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. -John Keats” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Be more of an artist, and “load every rift” of your subject with ore.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Give them Keats. Everyone loves Keats.” I remember one kid laughing at the line, “More happy love / More happy, happy love.”… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental… — Anonymous Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“In a good-natured way he had almost decided that Princeton was one part deadly Philistines and one part deadly grinds, and to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter.… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
“Phidias and the achievements of Greek art are foreshadowed in Homer: Dante prefigures for us the passion and colour and intensity of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
“... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Like Keats he may wander through the old-world forests of Latmos, or stand like Morris on the galley’s deck with the Viking… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep, He hath awaken’d from the dream of life; ’Tis we, who lost… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I squeezed her hand and said nothing. I knew little about Keats or his poetry, but I thought it possible that in… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“As for the other experiences, the solitary ones, which people go through alone, in their bedrooms, in their offices, walking the fields… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
![“... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, to seek it in that happy age ... when the writer used both sides of his mind [the male and female sides of his mind] equally. One must turn back to…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/107/virginia-woolf-49_androgyny_all-who-have-brought-about-a-state-of-se_2271608.jpg)
