Quotes by John Keats

About John Keats:

John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death.
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ri...

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Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

John Keats

O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue, with peace you force all the restless work to end; those who exalt you see and understand, and he is sound of mind who honours you. You cut the thread of tired thoughts, for so you offer calm in your moi...

John Keats

Precious is sleep, better to be of stone, while the oppression and the shame still last; not seeing and not hearing, I am blest; so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.

John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

John Keats

I have clung To nothing, lov’d a nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream!

John Keats

That men, who might have tower'd in the van Of all the congregated world, to fan And winnow from the coming step of time All chaff of custom, wipe away all slime Left by men-slugs and human serpentry, Have been content to let occasion die, Whilst the...

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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

John Keats

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

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My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again – my Life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was disso...

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

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

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

John Keats

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

John Keats

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine— Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade

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But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose, Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave, O...

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

John Keats

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...

John Keats

And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun/ And she forgot the blue above the trees,/ And she forgot the dells where waters run,/ And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze;/ She had no knowledge when the day was done,/ And the new morn she saw not: bu...

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

John Keats

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Keats
  • DescriptionEnglish Romantic poet
  • BornOctober 31, 1795
  • DiedFebruary 23, 1821
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer