John Keats Quotes

English - Poet October 31, 1795 - February 23, 1821

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

Love I Love You Romantic Me Believe

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Nature Poetry Dead Earth

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

Beauty Joy Never Will

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Romantic Sweet Sweeter Heard Those

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Experience Nothing Real Till

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Nature Scenery Human Nature Human

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

You New Valentine's Day Your Kisses

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

I Am Imagination Monk Monastery

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.

Nature Fire Human Nature New

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

Art Every Capable Intensity Making

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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.

Wisdom Man Wise You

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

Kiss Valentine's Day Bliss Now

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

Beauty Truth Know Earth Need

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

Heart Romantic I Am Truth

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Love Religion Love Is Die

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Beauty Truth Imagination Must

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Angel Wings Philosophy Will

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Water Name Here Lies

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.

Love Beauty Man Blame

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.

Thoughts Poetry Surprise Own

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.

Thoughts Mind Nothing Only

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.

Love Religion Men Love Is

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

Soul School Intelligence You

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

Music World Nothing Only Your

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

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.

Great Me You Speak

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