Keats Quotes

35 quotes by 29 authors

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide. — Jane Campion
If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. — Jane Campion
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love… — Jane Campion
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity. — George Gissing
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats — Irving Layton
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over… — Tillie Olsen
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book… — Thom Gunn
Have not Manet and Monet, CÃ©zanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the… — Winston Churchill
What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is… — Coleman Barks
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought… — Hans Zinsser
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell. — Aravind Adiga
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his… — Jane Campion
It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the… — Jane Campion
There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them,… — Jane Campion
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and… — Michael Cunningham
I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not. — John Keats
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one… — James Fenton
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you… — Shelby Foote
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest… — Wilfred Owen

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