John Keats's Quotes

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

John Keats

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

John Keats

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

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 love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

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 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

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

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

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

John Keats

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

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

Poetry should... 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

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

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

John Keats