John Keats quotes

John Keats was an English Romantic poet celebrated for his vivid imagery and sensuous style. His work deeply influenced later generations and marked a high point in English lyric poetry. He remains renowned for poems such as "Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn." Here are 255 of his quotes:

Here lies one whose name was writ in water. (John Keats)
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. View quote
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. View quote
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The poetry of the earth is never dead. View quote
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. View quote
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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. View quote
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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. View quote
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He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. View quote
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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. View quote
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter. View quote
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My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk. (John Keats)
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness. View quote
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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. View quote
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty. View quote
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. View quote
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not. View quote
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. View quote
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Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. View quote
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I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin? View quote
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it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. View quote
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The silver snarling trumpets 'gan to chide. (John Keats)
Works of genius are the first things in the world. View quote
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I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall! View quote
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I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet. View quote
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Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds. View quote
John Keats

John Keats

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Occupation: British Poet
Born: October 31, 1795
Died: February 23, 1821
Quotes count: 255
Wikipedia: John Keats

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