John Keats quotes

Here lies one whose name was writ in water. (John Keats)
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. View quote
John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. View quote
John Keats
The poetry of the earth is never dead. View quote
John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. View quote
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. View quote
John Keats
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. View quote
John Keats
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. View quote
John Keats
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. View quote
John Keats
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter. View quote
John Keats
My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk. (John Keats)
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness. View quote
John Keats
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. View quote
John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. View quote
John Keats
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. View quote
John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not. View quote
John Keats
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. View quote
John Keats
Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. View quote
John Keats
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin? View quote
John Keats
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. View quote
John Keats
The silver snarling trumpets 'gan to chide. (John Keats)
Works of genius are the first things in the world. View quote
John Keats
I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall! View quote
John Keats
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet. View quote
John Keats
Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds. View quote
John Keats