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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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its...

John Keats

Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, What can I do to kill it and be free?

John Keats

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

John Keats

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.

John Keats

Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto o...

John Keats

Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there they do not know me not even my most intimate acquaintance - I give into their feelings as though I were refraining from irritating a little ch...

John Keats

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

John Keats

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

John Keats

The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.

John Keats

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

John Keats

Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what they listen?

John Keats

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

John Keats

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

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

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

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

John Keats

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

John Keats
Valentine's Day quotes by John Keats, UberQuotes

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

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

Author Bio

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