Quotes By John Keats

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.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

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.

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.