John Keats Quotes

• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

  John Keats

  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in Hearing, Philosophy, Science, Music

• Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

  John Keats

  Topics in Experience, Inspirational

• For the sake of a few fine imaginative or domestic passages, are we to be bullied into a certain philosophy engendered in the whims of an egotist.

  John Keats

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writers

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

  John Keats

  Topics in Art, Life, Wisdom

• 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

  Topics in Wisdom

• Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

  John Keats

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Poetry

• I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

  John Keats

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.

  John Keats

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st, ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

  John Keats

  Topics in Age, Funny, Truth

• A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

  John Keats

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Men

• The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

  John Keats

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagination

• Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.

  John Keats

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy

• Then on the shore of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

  John Keats

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Fame

• Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

  John Keats

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Positive Thinking, Seasons

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Praise

• The poetry of the earth is never dead.

  John Keats

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel’s song!

  John Keats

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Romance

• I would jump down Etna for any public good – but I hate a mawkish popularity.

  John Keats

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate

John Keats (162)

Birth:	31st October, 1795
Death:	23rd February, 1821
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

About

John Keats was born in London, England. He was an English Romantic poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. Having finished his apprenticeship with Hammond, he registered as a medical student at Guy's Hospital, now part of King's College London and began studying there in October 1815. He wrote several poems include: Endymion, Hyperion, Lamia, To Autumn, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Ode to a Nightingale.

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