Quotes by John Keats

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

— John Keats

Love

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

— John Keats

Wisdom

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

— John Keats

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Love

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

— John Keats

Happiness

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

— John Keats

Love

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

— John Keats

Wisdom

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

— John Keats

Wisdom

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

Life

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

— John Keats

Wisdom

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

Life

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

— John Keats

Wisdom

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

— John Keats

Wisdom

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

— John Keats

Wisdom

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

— John Keats

Love

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

Courage

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

— John Keats

Truth

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

— John Keats

Wisdom

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

— John Keats

Life

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

Wisdom

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

— John Keats

Life

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

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

Wisdom