“Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”
– John Keats
“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
“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
– John Keats
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.”
– 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
“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 is my religion – I could die for it.”
– 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.”
– John Keats
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
– 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
“Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
– 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. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”
– John Keats
“Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.”
– John Keats
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
– John Keats
“There is nothing stable in the world uproar’s your only music.”
– 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 – I could die for that.”
– 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 – I could die for that.”
– 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 is my religion – I could die for it.”
– 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
“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
– John Keats
“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
– John Keats
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.”
– John Keats
“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”
– 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
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
– John Keats
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
– John Keats
“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
“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”
– John Keats