Anxiety Quote by Jane Campion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be…

— Andrew Motion

“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift me above…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

— 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…

— Jane Campion

I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power.…

— Zadie Smith

“Will asked the same questions as many times as he’d read the verse. What did Keats want to do, why would it take so…

— Will Willingham

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…

— Jane Campion

“There is indeed a poetical attitude to be adopted towards all things, but all things are not fit subjects for poetry. Into the secure…

— Oscar Wilde

Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism,…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

“I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.”

— Jeanette Winterson

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be…

— Dylan Thomas

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald