John Keats Quotes

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

Beauty, Joy, Forever

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

Truth, Beauty, Earth

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
John Keats

Experience, Nothing, Real

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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
John Keats

Last, Sweetest, Kisses

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
John Keats

Valentine's Day, Kiss, Bliss

Love is my religion - I could die for it.
John Keats

Love, Religion, Die

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

Love, Nothing, Else

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

School, Soul, Necessary

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.
John Keats

Love, Religion, Men

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
John Keats

Sweet, Heard, Melodies

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

Romantic, Truth, Heart

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
John Keats

Mind, Nothing, Thoughts

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.
John Keats

Great, Between, Speak

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats

Greatest, Fail, Among

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.
John Keats

Death, Two, Same

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

Nature, Poetry, Dead

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John Keats

Great, Death, Sea

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, Thoughts, Almost

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.
John Keats

Wisdom, Wise, Give

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John Keats

Nature, Human, Fine

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.
John Keats

Nature, Human, Fire

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats

Here, Lies, Water

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats

Philosophy, Angel, Wings

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John Keats

Water, Top, Temper

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
John Keats

Follow, Lead, Fears

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: October 31, 1795

Died: February 23, 1821

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