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Pass into nothingness; but still will keep. A bower quiet for us, and a sleep. Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing …. ‘Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain’. John Keats reportedly took just two or three hours to write ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, which is remarkable.
Jan 4, 2017 · Keats’ nuanced and positive views of women clearly have continuing relevance. Keats’ insistence on the transforming power of beauty—natural, moral, and spiritual beauty—reminds me of Dostoevsky’s enigmatic remark as quoted by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his Nobel Prize Lecture (1970): Beauty will save the world.
- “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter” ― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems.
- “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” ― John Keats, Letters of John Keats.
- “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
- “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” ― John Keats.
Fanny Brawne (1800–1865), whom Keats met and fell in love with in Hampstead at the end of 1818, combined the erotic attraction of a lover and the domestic familiarity of a sister. Keats first describes her in the journal letter to George and Georgiana of 16 December 1818 as ‘beautiful and elegant, graceful, silly, fashionable and strange ...
- Heidi Thomson
- 2017
Keats and the Performance of Gender 57. of a thought about anything else." Like the poet in a state of "negative capability," Keats as he wrote Otho the Great attempted to exist in a con- dition which precluded any "irritable reaching" after information which related to anything beyond the present moment.
“To stay youthful, stay useful.” “Was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music–do I wake or sleep?” “We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.” “What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?”
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Like. “Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears, and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries, Tonight if I may guess, thy beauty wears a smile of such delight, As brilliant and as bright. As when with ravished, aching, nassal eyes, Lost in a soft amaze. I gaze, I gaze”. ― John Keats, Letters of John Keats.
