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John Keats
English
Poet
About the author
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Earth
#Truth
#Beauty
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Death
#Land
#Sea
#Weakness
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Name
#Lies
#Water
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,
English
Poet
#Love
#Man
#Effect
#Beauty
#Blame
#Praise
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,
English
Poet
#Poetry
#Thoughts
#Excess
#Remembrance
You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Kisses
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,
English
Poet
#Difference
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats,
English
Poet
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Public
#Enemy
#Help
#Feelings
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Imagination
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Nothing
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Now
#Kiss
#Vow
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Will
#Philosophy
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,
English
Poet
#Soul
#Poetry
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Poetry
#Thoughts
#Remembrance
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Nature
#Human nature
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Art
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Earth
#Poetry
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#May
#Man
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,
English
Poet
#Wonder
#Pity
#Nature
#Human nature
#Fire
#Heroism
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Failure
#Hell
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Nothing
#World
#Music
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,
English
Poet
#Grace
#Man
#Quarrel
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Imagination
#Truth
#Beauty
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,
English
Poet
#Nothing
#Mind
#Intellect
#Thoughts
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Temper
#Water
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Sense
#Beauty
#Consideration
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Will
#Beauty
#Joy
#Nothingness
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats,
English
Poet
#World
#School
#Soul
#Intelligence
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Immortality
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
John Keats,
English
Poet
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Love
#Religion
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Nothing
#Heart
#Imagination
#Truth
#Holiness
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#states
#Gold
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,
English
Poet
#Love
#Men
#Religion
#Martyrs
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,
English
Poet
#Death
#Possession
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats,
English
Poet
#Love
#Nothing
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,
English
Poet
#Will
#Man
#Wisdom
#Vanity