Words matter. These are the best John Keats Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
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.
He ne’er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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.
Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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.
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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.
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.
Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
Love is my religion – I could die for it.
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.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
The Public – a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
