Monday, November 17, 2008

John Keats--poetry quotes

"[...] on the shore/Of thewide world I stand alone, and think/Till love and fame to nothingness do sink" ("When I have fears")

"on the shores of darkness there is light [...] There is a budding morrow in midnight" ("To Homer")

"numerous as shadows" and "[...]the honey'd middle of teh night" and "yearning like a god in pain" and Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain" and "The bliss of her dream so pure and deep" and "etheral[...] throbbing star" and "Into her dream he melted, [...]" and "sleeping dragons" (from "Eve of St. Agnes")

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" and "[...] thou hast thy music too,--/While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,/And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue" ("To Autumn")

"Let me not wander in a barren dream;/But, when I am consumed in the fire,/Give me new phoenix wings to fly at my desire." ("On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again")

" [...] a shadow of a manitude" ("On Seeing the Elgin Marbles")

"Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth!" and "But on the viewless wings of Poesy" and "the same that oft-times hath/Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam/Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn" and "Was it a vision, r a waking dream?" (Ode to a Nightengale")

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter still; therefore, ye soft pipes play on;/Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties fo no tone" and "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." ("Ode on a Grecian Urn")

"Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave" ("Ode on Melancholy")

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