John Keats quotes

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.

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

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.

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

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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.

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.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

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.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

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

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

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

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.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

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

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

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

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.

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

The poetry of the earth is never dead.