Quotes by 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~
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,
-- that is all ye know on earth,
and all ye need to know.
~John Keats~
Love is my religion -- I could die for it.
~John Keats~
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
~John Keats~
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
~John Keats~
A man's life of any worth is a continual
allegory -- and very few eyes can
see the mystery of his life -- a life
like the Scriptures -- figurative.
~John Keats~
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves
to a tree, it had better not come at all.
~John Keats~
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people
-- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps,
by widening speculation, to ease the Burden of the Mystery.
~John Keats~
A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
~John Keats~
I love you the more that I believe you have
liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
~John Keats~
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced
-- even a proverb is no proverb to you
till your life has illustrated it.
~John Keats~
We read fine things but never feel
them to the full until we have gone
the same steps as the author.
~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~
Do you not see how necessary a world
of pains and troubles is to school an
intelligence and make it a soul?
~John Keats~
The problems of the world cannot possibly be
solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons
are limited by the obvious realities. We need
men who can dream of things that never were.
~John Keats~
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