Quotes of: Keats Keyword

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

The Fountainhead

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

Hart Crane

A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.

John O'Donohue

No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don’t I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.

George Gordon Byron

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

Ben Whishaw

John Keating: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Dead Poets Society

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Michel de Montaigne

My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again – my Life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was disso...

Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

Shelby Foote

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

Jane Campion

Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine's Day.

Marcus Samuelsson

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

James Fenton

John Keating: There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

Dead Poets Society

John Keating: [the class hesitates to rip out the introduction page] It's not the Bible, you're not gonna go to Hell for this.

Dead Poets Society

John Keating: Phone call from God. If it had been collect, that would have been daring!

Dead Poets Society

John Keating: I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself. Nolan: At these boys' age? Not on your life!

Dead Poets Society

John Keating: Mr. Anderson! Don't think that I don't know that this assignment scares the hell out of you, you mole!

Dead Poets Society

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Andrew Motion

There was a day when writers actually read," he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.

Poe

I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.

Robert Orben

Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.

Patricia Hewitt