Quotes By 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
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
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
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
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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 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
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
John Keats
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats
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.
John Keats