40 Quotes By John Keats


There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
John Keats on music

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats on nature

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John Keats on nature

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 on nature

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats on poetry

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats on poetry

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 on poetry

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 on poetry

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

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 religion

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

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

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

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

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 on wisdom

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
John Keats on valentines day

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

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John Keats on human

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
John Keats on imagination

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
John Keats on immortality