John Keats

Quotes

• “Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mus...”
• “I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be...”
• “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep ...”
• “The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious real...”
• “Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with i...”
• “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
• “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”
• “I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
• “The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
• “Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”
• “If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”
• “Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.”
• “Life is but a day:A fragile dewdrop on its perilious wayFrom a tree's summit”
• “Here lies one whose name was writ on water.”
• “Love is my religion - I could die for it.”
• “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”