John Keats Quotes

"Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us."
-John Keats

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
-John Keats in Beauty quotes.

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, --that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
-John Keats

"Tis the witching hour of night, Or bed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they?"
-John Keats

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."
-John Keats

"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
-John Keats in Love quotes.

"I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. "
-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

"The only means of strengthening one's intelligence is to make up one's mind about nothing- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts."
-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 in Failure quotes.

"I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever."
-John Keats in Love quotes.

"I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination."
-John Keats in Affection quotes.

"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all."
-John Keats

"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth."
-John Keats

"Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry."
-John Keats in Food quotes.

"O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts."
-John Keats

"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."
-John Keats