Famous Quotes

Quotes by John Keats

• 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
• A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.
• Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
• I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
• 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.
• 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.
• I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
• 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.
• Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
• Love is my religion - I could die for it.
• My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
• Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
• Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
• 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.
• 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.
• Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
• 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.
• Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
• The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
• The poetry of the earth is never dead.
• 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.
• There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
• There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
• What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
• With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
• 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.