Memorable John Keats Quotes

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"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
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."
John Keats
"I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion – I have shuddered at it – I shudder no more – I could be martyr'd for my Religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that."
John Keats
"Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers."
John Keats
"Give me books, fruit, French wine, and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know."
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"In spite of all the refinements of society, bestial man still retains the clumsy body of an animal, and, an animal in rut, is loathsome."
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"I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
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"It is not easy to be simple."
John Keats
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
John Keats
"Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know."
John Keats
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
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"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
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"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer."
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"Shed no tear! O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year."
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
"I have the same breakfast every morning, and the world should not believe a word of the matter got from Byron, Shelley, or my own mouth."
John Keats
"A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity."
John Keats
"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 and I could die for that. I could die for you."
John Keats
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days—three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
John Keats
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
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."
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"Philosophy will clip an angel's wings."
John Keats
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success."
John Keats
"Give me books, fruit, French wine, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
John Keats
"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
John Keats
"In uncertainties I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved."
John Keats
"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
John Keats
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance."
John Keats
"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
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
"Love is my religion — I could die for it."
John Keats
"There is but one way; the road lies through ambuscades."
John Keats
"I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths."
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
"But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, and the sound of a voice that is still!"
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"Every man has his speculations, but every man does not let them confine and debilitate his life."
John Keats
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
John Keats
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination."
John Keats
"Love is my religion—I could die for it."
John Keats
"My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk."
John Keats
"A thing is beautiful not because it lasts."
John Keats
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
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
"A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity—he is continually in for—and filling some other Body."
John Keats
"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."
John Keats
"The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate."
John Keats
"I can never feel certain of any truth but from a clear perception of its beauty."
John Keats
"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, and watching, with eternal lids apart, like nature's patient sleepless Eremite."
John Keats
"I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."
John Keats
"Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced."
John Keats
"A man should be capable of setting a tone for his life and not be continually subject to the whim of changing influences."
John Keats
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
John Keats
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
John Keats
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
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
"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
"Scenery is fine—but human nature is finer."
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
"Touch has a memory."
John Keats
"Truth is beauty, beauty truth,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
John Keats
"With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
John Keats
"A thing of beauty is a constant joy."
John Keats
"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
John Keats
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
John Keats
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."
John Keats
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections, and the truth of the Imagination."
John Keats
"I will greet the sun with a cheer. I would doom myself no life’s weal."
John Keats
"He was just a philosophical ignoramus: right or wrong, it did not much matter, and we argued daily and nightly—young and old."
John Keats
"Aristotle is my cake, where all repinings die, a creed and a disciple."
John Keats
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