Quotes By John Keats

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

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.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

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.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

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

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

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.

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.

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

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

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

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.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

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