Quotes by John Keats

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

"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."

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

"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."

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

"Love is my religion - I could die for it."

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

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

"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."

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

"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."

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