Popular

Browse Popular Topics

Quotes by John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
– John Keats
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
– John Keats
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
– John Keats
Health is my expected heaven.
– John Keats
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
– John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
– John Keats
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
– John Keats
I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.
– John Keats
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
– John Keats
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
– 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
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
– John Keats
Love in a hut, with water and a crust, is - Lover, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.
– John Keats
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
– John Keats
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
– John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
– John Keats
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
– John Keats
O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.
– John Keats
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings.
– John Keats
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth.
– John Keats
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
– 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
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
– John Keats
She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore.
– John Keats
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
– 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
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
– John Keats
When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
– John Keats
Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
– John Keats
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is all
Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
– John Keats
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
– John Keats
Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen
For what listen they?
– John Keats
You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
– John Keats
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
– John Keats
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
– John Keats
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
– 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
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
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
– John Keats
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
– 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