John Keats Quotes

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.
John Keats

Love, Beauty, Blame

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
John Keats

May, Almost, Spider

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John Keats

Monk, Monastery

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

Art, Making, Capable

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
John Keats

Music, Nothing, Stable

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats

Beauty, Truth, Seizes

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats

Beauty, Great, Sense

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
John Keats

Seen, Gold, Traveled

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

Great, Poetry, Soul

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

Poetry, Thoughts, Almost

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
John Keats

Enemy, Help, Feelings

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

Great, Failure, Hell

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.
John Keats

Grace, Quarrel, Though

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: October 31, 1795

Died: February 23, 1821

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