John Keats Soul Quotations

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?

I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.

Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.

Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.