"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
John Keats"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
John Keats"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
John Keats"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."
John Keats"There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object."
John Keats"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."
John Keats"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
John Keats"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."
John Keats"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
John Keats"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
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"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
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."
John Keats