John Keats Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

  John Keats

  Pain, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure

  John Keats (2009). “Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats”, p.160, Modern Library

• Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

  John Keats

  Book, Wine, Doors

• My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

  John Keats

  Love, Pain, Passion

• Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.

  John Keats

  Food, Writing, Hands

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.96

• 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

  Love, Romantic, Believe

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.312, Harvard University Press

• Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

  John Keats

  Dream, Real, Long

  "Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters".

• No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.

  John Keats

  Writing, Thinking, Air

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.44, Delphi Classics

• Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
  And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

  John Keats

  Song, Sweet, Poetry

  'To George Felton Mathew' (1817) l. 1

• I came to feel how far above
  All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood,
  All earthly pleasure, all imagined good,
  Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.

  John Keats

  Pride, Kissing, Fickle

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.105, Рипол Классик

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