“Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?”
Robert Browning
“I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not.”
John Keats
“Who killed Johnny Keats? "I," said the Quarterly, "So savage and tartarly, 'Twas one of my feats”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Byron and Shelley and Keats/ Were a trio of lyrical treats.”
Dorothy Parker
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing...”
“Of course, I like Byron enormously; I'm crazy about Don Juan. And of course Keats and Shelley and I suppose everyone that everyone likes.”
Kenneth Koch
“He receives comfort like cold porridge.”
William Shakespeare
