John Keats Quotes

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