John Keats Quotes

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experiencedeven a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

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Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good

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Pleasure is oft a visitant but pain Clings cruelly to us.

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It's very difficult to convince anyone of reckless driving when the bus wasn't moving.

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Here are sweet-peas, on tip-toe for a flight With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

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

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts

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I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.

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Thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades Was it a vision or a waking dream Fled is that music - Do I wake or sleep

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I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.

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St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold.

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Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy There was an awful rainbow once in heaven we know her woof, her texture she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow.

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A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body.

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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.

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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

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I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason....

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I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Hearts affections and the Truth of the Imagination.

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All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed, A burning forehead and a parching tongue.

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Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.

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How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not 'babble,' I think of green fields I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have know from my infancy their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with superhuman fancy.

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Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy To those who woo her with too slavish knees.

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For what has made the sage or poet write But the fair paradise of Nature's light.

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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.

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