69 result(s) for John Keats Quotes.
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers."
"Give me books, fruit, French wine, and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know."
"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."
"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."
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
"Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know."
"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."
"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer."
"Shed no tear! O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year."
"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."
"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."
"A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity."
"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."
"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."
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
"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."
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success."
"Give me books, fruit, French wine, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
"In uncertainties I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved."
"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance."
"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
"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."
"Love is my religion — I could die for it."
"There is but one way; the road lies through ambuscades."
"I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths."
"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."
"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."
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination."
"Love is my religion—I could die for it."
"My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk."
"A thing is beautiful not because it lasts."
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
"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."
"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."
"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."
"The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate."
"I can never feel certain of any truth but from a clear perception of its beauty."
"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."
"I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."
"Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced."
"A man should be capable of setting a tone for his life and not be continually subject to the whim of changing influences."
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
"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."
"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."
"Scenery is fine—but human nature is finer."
"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."
"Touch has a memory."
"Truth is beauty, beauty truth,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
"With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
"A thing of beauty is a constant joy."
"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections, and the truth of the Imagination."
"I will greet the sun with a cheer. I would doom myself no life’s weal."
"He was just a philosophical ignoramus: right or wrong, it did not much matter, and we argued daily and nightly—young and old."
"Aristotle is my cake, where all repinings die, a creed and a disciple."
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