I like perfume and flowers.
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
John Keating: Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, [imitating a goat] John Keating: "that's baaaaad." ...
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
Everything's coming up roses - for me.
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.
John Keating: Mr. Meeks, time to inherit the earth.
As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.
