Top 35 Quotes About Keats Time
#1. 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
#2. The opinion I have of the generality of women
who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.
John Keats
#3. Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.
John Keats
#4. Books do pretend ... but squeezed in between is even more that is true - without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
Matthew Pearl
#5. Life is but a day:
A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way
From a tree's summit
John Keats
#6. What had John Keats said about Negative Capability - holding two opposite ideas in one's mind at the same time without straining to reconcile them?
Dan Simmons
#7. The splendors of the firmament of time
May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not;
Like stars to their appointed height they climb
And death is a low mist which cannot blot
The brightness it may veil.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#8. What I deeply want ... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.
Coleman Barks
#9. Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams
The summer time away.
John Keats
#10. 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
#11. Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.
Eric Thomas
#12. Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
Ovid
#13. Tis "the witching time of night", / Orbed is the moon and bright, / And the stars they glisten, glisten, / Seeming with bright eyes to listen -
John Keats
#14. O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake,
Would all their colours from the sunset take:
From something of material sublime,
Rather than shadow our own soul's day-time
In the dark void of night. For in the world
We jostle, - but my flag is not unfurl'd ...
John Keats
#15. I'm not sure why we want each other," she grumbled.
"Nor am I, but the fact remains that we do want each other."
"Maybe I'm just shallow. You're quite pretty."
"For now, that will do."
Infuriating man. Couldn't take an insult the way she intended.
-Annabelle and Zacharel
Gena Showalter
#16. When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait, and obey." Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.
Rose Tremain
#17. The writer's creed: If life hands you lemons--write The Lemon Cookbook!
Sharon Geltner
#19. In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time.
John Keats
#22. You have kids and you think I made you, so we're the same, but it's not true. You just get to live with them for a while and maybe help them figure things out.
Noah Hawley
#23. What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.
John Keats
#24. It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.
John Keats
#25. Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.
John Keats
#26. When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
Oscar Wilde
#27. I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.
Skeet Ulrich
#28. Time, that aged nurse, rocked me to patience.
John Keats
#29. One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
John Keats
#31. Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.
Marc Riboud
#32. Each of us needs something of an island in his life - if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be himself, free to cultivate his differences from others.
John Keats
#33. The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. O aching time! O moments big as years!
John Keats
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