40 Quotes By John Keats


The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats on art

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats on beauty

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

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.
John Keats on beauty

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

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats on beauty

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 on death

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John Keats on death

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
John Keats on experience

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats on failure

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 on great

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John Keats on great

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats on imagination

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John Keats on imagination

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

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats on intelligence

Love is my religion - I could die for it.
John Keats on love

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats on love

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 on love

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 on men