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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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats

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

John Keats

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

John Keats

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

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

John Keats

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

John Keats

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

John Keats

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

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

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

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

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

John Keats

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

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

John Keats

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

John Keats

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

John Keats

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

John Keats

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

John Keats

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

John Keats

Author Bio

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