John Keats Quotes


A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. John Keats Beauty 186
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... John Keats Beauty 165
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. John Keats Music 133
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave John Keats Death 129
Give me books French wine fruit fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. John Keats Wine 122
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 Fight 118
The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats Nature 109
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. John Keats Uncategorized 105
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. John Keats Imagination 99
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 98
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss. John Keats Valentines 94
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats Love 93
Pensive they sit and roll their languid eyes. John Keats Boredom 91
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? John Keats Intelligence 91
What is more gentle than a wind is summer? John Keats Nature 90
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 Birds 89
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats Experience 86
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. John Keats Beauty 86
Love is my religion - I could die for it. John Keats Religion 81
Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably John Keats 80
Health is my expected heaven. John Keats Health 80
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. John Keats Failure 80
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. John Keats Nature 79
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. John Keats Law 78
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves? John Keats Fame 78
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good? John Keats Charity 77
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 Death 75
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen. John Keats Gold 74
Touch has a memory. John Keats Memory 73
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. John Keats Illusion 72
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness. John Keats Family 71
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. John Keats Music 71
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. John Keats Death 71
Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! John Keats Oceans 70
Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu. John Keats Joy 70
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 69
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings John Keats Solitude 66
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. John Keats Seasons 64
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. John Keats beauty 63
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. John Keats Failure 59
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. John Keats Address 55
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. John Keats Art 55
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 Definition 54
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 Religion 54
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 Nature 51
Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and. John Keats Knowledge 51
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. John Keats Imagination 50
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness. John Keats beauty 50
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. John Keats Poetry 49
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. John Keats Depression 47

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