Able Quote by Robert Wilson Lynd

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

“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

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

— Jeanette Winterson

“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

“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

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

— Jane Campion

Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent…

— Amy Lowell

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