Famous John Keats Quotations

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"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth."
by John Keats
"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
by John Keats
"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is allYe know on Earth, and all ye need to know."
by John Keats
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness"
by John Keats
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
by John Keats
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know."
by John Keats
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul"
by John Keats
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. 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, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
by John Keats
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
by John Keats
"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 - whether it existed before or not."
by John Keats
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination."
by John Keats
"I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives."
by John Keats
"I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."
by John Keats
"If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."
by John Keats
"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
by John Keats
"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk."
by John Keats
"No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist / Wolf 's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine."
by John Keats
"O Sorrow, / Why dost borrow / Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?"
by John Keats
"O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings"
by John Keats
"O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts."
by John Keats
"O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!"
by John Keats
"Philosophy will clip an angel's wings."
by John Keats
"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."
by John Keats
"Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass / Their pleasures in a long immortal dream."
by John Keats
"Should ever the fine-eyed maid to me be kind; Ah! surely it must be whenever I find; Some flowery spot, sequestered, wild, romantic; That often must have seen a poet frantic."
by John Keats
"The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse"
by John Keats
"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
by John Keats
"The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness."
by John Keats
"The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness."
by John Keats
"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."
by John Keats
"The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
by John Keats
"The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility."
by John Keats
"There is a budding morrow in midnight."
by John Keats
"Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought / As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!"
by John Keats
"Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen
For what listen they?"
by John Keats
"Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they"
by John Keats
"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
by John Keats
"Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?"
by Robert Browning
"Why were they proud? again we ask aloud, / Why in the name of Glory were they proud?"
by John Keats
"You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore."
by John Keats
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
by John Keats
"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?"
by John Keats
"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
by John Keats
"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it."
by John Keats
"There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object."
by John Keats
"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?"
by 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."
by John Keats
"Even if I was well - I must make myself as good a Philosopher as possible. Now I have had opportunities of passing nights anxious and awake I have found other thoughts intrude upon me. If I should die, said I to myself, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd."
by John Keats
"Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow."
by 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."
by 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."
by John Keats
"Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific--and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise-- Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
by John Keats
"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music."
by John Keats
"His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;"
by John Keats
"Health is my expected heaven."
by John Keats
"Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever."
by John Keats
"The opinion I have of the generality of women—who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a ba..."
by John Keats
"To know the change and feel it,"
by John Keats
"What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?..."
by John Keats
"When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain."
by John Keats


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