Keats Love Quotes

#1. Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.

John Keats

#2. It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.

Jane Campion

#3. I never felt my Mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment - upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses.

John Keats

#4. I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

John Keats

#5. I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman
they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence

John Keats

#6. I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest - and many living poets as well.

Brenda Hillman

#7. Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,
What can I do to kill it and be free?

John Keats

#8. I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

John Keats

#9. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

John Keats

#10. I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever

John Keats

#11. My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

John Keats

#12. When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Jane Campion

#13. Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

John Keats

#14. A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

John Keats

#15. It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

John Keats

#16. Open wide the mind's cage-door,
She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

John Keats

#17. And there shall be for thee all soft delight
That shadowy thought can win,
A bright torch, and a casement ope at night,
To let the warm Love in!

John Keats

#18. I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!

John Keats

#19. I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion
I have shuddered at it,
I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you.
My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

John Keats

#20. Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

John Keats

#21. Bold Lover, never, never canst Thou kiss, Though winning near the goalyet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though Thou hast not Thy bliss, Forever wilt Thou love, and she be fair

John Keats

#22. When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love - but if you should deny me the thousand and first - 'twould put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

John Keats

#23. 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

#24. Love is my religion--I could die for it.

John Keats

#25. I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats

#26. For many a time I have been half in love with easeful death. Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, to take into the air my quiet breath

John Keats

#27. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

John Keats

#28. Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.

John Keats

#29. I have clung To nothing, lov'd a nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream!

John Keats

#30. Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.

John Keats

#31. I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.

John Keats

#32. 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.

John Keats

#33. Let us away, my love, with happy speed;
There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see,
- Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead.
Awake! arise! my love and fearless be,
For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.

John Keats

#34. That men, who might have tower'd in the van
Of all the congregated world, to fan
And winnow from the coming step of time
All chaff of custom, wipe away all slime
Left by men-slugs and human serpentry,
Have been content to let occasion die,
Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium.

John Keats

#35. Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

John Keats