O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

Quote by John Keats

Topics: Romance Quotes

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who...

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who...

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered...

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered...

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for...

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty...

Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with...

Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with...

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school...

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school...

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does...

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does...

Love is like the moon, when it does not increase, it decreases

Love is like the moon, when it does not increase, it decreases

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.