John-keats Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

“Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice…

— David Mitchell

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

— Jane Campion

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman

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

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of…

— Zbigniew Herbert

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

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

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne