John Keats Quotes

• What occasions the greater part of the world’s quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

  John Keats

• I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not.

  John Keats

• I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

  John Keats

• Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous – who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

  John Keats

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

  John Keats

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Knowledge

• My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

  John Keats

• I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

  John Keats

• I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

  John Keats

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

  John Keats

• The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

  John Keats

• Now a soft kiss — Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

  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.

  John Keats

  Topics in Experience, Failure

• When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

  John Keats

  Topics in Fear

• What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

  John Keats

• Love is my religion – I could die for it.

  John Keats

  Topics in Love

• I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

  John Keats

  Topics in Love

• Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us.

  John Keats

• A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

  John Keats

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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