Quotes

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” John Keats

“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.” John Keats

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.” John Keats

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” John Keats

“He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.” John Keats

“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.” John Keats

“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” John Keats

“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.” John Keats

“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.” John Keats

“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.” John Keats

“It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.” John Keats

“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.” John Keats

“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.” John Keats

“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.” John Keats

“Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.” John Keats

“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.” John Keats

“The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.” John Keats

“Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.” John Keats

“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” Robert Kennedy

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” Robert Kennedy

“Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.” Robert Kennedy

“But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?” Robert Kennedy

“What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.” Robert Kennedy

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.” Robert Kennedy

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.” Robert Kennedy

“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.” Robert Kennedy

“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.” Robert Kennedy

“People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.” Robert Kennedy

“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” Robert Kennedy

“Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.” Robert Kennedy