John Keats Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Flower, Feet

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 5

• I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?

  John Keats

  Writing, Animal, Thinking

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.38

• Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen.

  John Keats

  Light, Sight, Darkness

  'To Homer' (written 1818)

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