John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. Profoundly inspirational John Keats quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous John Keats Quotes
I don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever. John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats
What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently? John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. John Keats
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
Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego. John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats
I don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever. 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
To stay youthful, stay useful. 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 imagination. John Keats
Shed no tear O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core. John Keats
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
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination. 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
My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you. John Keats
A man’s life of any worth is a continual allegory. John Keats
To silence gossip, don’t repeat it. John Keats
Health is the greatest of blessings with health and hope we should be content to live. John Keats
The excellence of every Art is its intensity. John Keats
A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery. John Keats
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. John Keats
I have so much of you in my heart. John Keats
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering. John Keats
To silence gossip, don’t repeat it. John Keats
I have so much of you in my heart. 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
Like a mermaid in sea weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest. John Keats
My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you. John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. John Keats
My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you. John Keats
If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all. John Keats
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering. John Keats
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success. John Keats
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it. 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
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention. John Keats
If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all. John Keats
And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head. John Keats
That which is creative must create itself. John Keats
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. John Keats
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul making. John Keats
I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love but if you should deny me the thousand and first‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through. John Keats
What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently? John Keats
Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit. John Keats
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget. John Keats
The air is all softness. John Keats
Many have original minds who do not think it they are led away by custom! John Keats
Love is my religion I could die for it. John Keats
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me nothing to make my friends proud of my memory but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered. John Keats
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making. John Keats
I must choose between despair and Energy I choose the latter. John Keats
Now a soft kiss Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss. John Keats
To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty. 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
And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head. John Keats
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. John Keats
I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen. John Keats
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. John Keats
I want a brighter word than bright. John Keats
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream. John Keats
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. 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
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. John Keats
Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. John Keats
O aching time! O moments big as years! John Keats
Health is my expected heaven. John Keats
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it. I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses. John Keats
O let me lead her gently o’er the brook, Watch her half smiling lips and downward look; O let me for one moment touch her wrist; Let me one moment to her breathing list; And as she leaves me, may she often turn Her fair eyes looking through her locks auburne. John Keats
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author. John Keats
If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true. John Keats
I want a brighter word than bright. John Keats
A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world. John Keats
The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it. John Keats
Like a mermaid in sea weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest. John Keats
Scenery is fin but human nature is finer. John Keats
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. John Keats
That which is creative must create itself. John Keats
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. John Keats
A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery. John Keats
There is an old saying well begun is half done tis a bad one. I would use instead not begun at all til half done. John Keats
The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it. John Keats
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music. John Keats
Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer. John Keats
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 tene You have ravish’d me away by a Power I cannot resist. John Keats
I have loved the principle of beauty in all things. John Keats
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their 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. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet. John Keats
I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a beating! John Keats
