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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
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.
John Keats
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 should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
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
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John Keats
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats
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
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
John Keats
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
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
John Keats
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
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats
You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
John Keats
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
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