"A poet is the most unpoetical of anything……" — John Keats

"A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body."

Anything Quotes Body Quotes Continually Quotes Existence Quotes Filling Quotes Identity Quotes Informing Quotes Most Quotes Other Quotes Poet Quotes Some Quotes Unpoetical Quotes

327 Quotes by John Keats

John Keats has 327 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again...
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I…
A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands…
Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.
That queen of secrecy, the violet.
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I…
The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek…
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

See all 327 quotes by John Keats »

More Body Quotes

This quote is filed under Body Quotes, one of 12,166 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

See all 12,166 Body Quotes »