John Keats Quotes
"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."
- John Keats
(Related: Imagination)
"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."
- John Keats
(Related: Nothing)
"Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss."
- John Keats
(Related: Kiss, Now, Vow)
"Philosophy will clip an angel's wings."
- John Keats
(Related: Philosophy, Will)
"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
(Related: Poetry, Soul)
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
- John Keats
(Related: Poetry, Thoughts, Remembrance)
"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer."
- John Keats
(Related: Nature, Human nature)
"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
- John Keats
(Related: Art)
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
- John Keats
(Related: Poetry, Earth)
"It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel."
- John Keats
(Related: Man, May)
"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
(Related: Nature, Fire, Heroism, Human nature, Pity, Wonder)
"There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object."
- John Keats
(Related: Failure, Hell)
"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music."
- John Keats
(Related: Music, Nothing, World)
"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
(Related: Grace, Man, Quarrel)
"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
- John Keats
(Related: Beauty, Imagination, Truth)
"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts."
- John Keats
(Related: Thoughts, Intellect, Mind, Nothing)
"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
- John Keats
(Related: Temper, Water)
"With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
- John Keats
(Related: Beauty, Consideration, Sense)
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
- John Keats
(Related: Beauty, Joy, Nothingness, Will)
"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
- John Keats
(Related: Beauty, Truth, Earth)
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
- John Keats
(Related: Intelligence, Soul, School, World)
"He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead."
- John Keats
(Related: Immortality)
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
- John Keats
"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
- John Keats
(Related: Love, Religion)
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
- John Keats
(Related: Imagination, Truth, Heart, Holiness, Nothing)
"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
- John Keats
(Related: Gold, states)
"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
(Related: Love, Men, Religion, Martyrs)
"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
(Related: Death, Possession)
"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."
- John Keats
(Related: Love, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Wisdom, Man, Vanity, Will)
"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
- 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
(Related: Beauty, Love, Blame, Effect, Man, Praise)
"Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever."
- John Keats
(Related: Death, Land, Sea, Weakness)
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
- John Keats
(Related: Lies, Name, Water)
"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
(Related: Difference)
"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
(Related: Poetry, Thoughts, Excess, Remembrance)
"You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest."
- John Keats
(Related: Kisses)