John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, though his poems were in publication for only four years before he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were not generally well-received by critics in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death. These John Keats quotes will motivate you.
Best John Keats Quotes
- “I don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever” ~ John Keats
- “What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?” ~ John Keats
- “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” ~ 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 form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.” ~ John Keats
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“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” ~ John Keats
- “The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.” ~ John Keats
- “Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego” ~ John Keats
- “To stay youthful, stay useful.” ~ John Keats
- “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” ~ John Keats - “Shed no tear – O, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more – O, weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.” ~ John Keats - “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.” ~ John Keats
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“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.” ~ John Keats
- “To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.” ~ John Keats
- “The excellence of every Art is its intensity.” ~ John Keats
- “You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.” ~ John Keats
- “Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.” ~ John Keats
- “I have so much of you in my heart.” ~ John Keats
- “Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.” ~ John Keats
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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” ~ John Keats
- “If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,
then it better not come at all.” ~ John Keats - “Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.” ~ John Keats
- “Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it” ~ John Keats
- “We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.” ~ John Keats
- “And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.” ~ John Keats
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“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.” ~ John Keats
- “I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.” ~ John Keats
- “Touch has a memory. O say, love say,
What can I do to kill it and be free
In my old liberty?” ~ John Keats - “Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.” ~ John Keats
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“The air is all softness.” ~ John Keats
- “Love is my religion – I could die for it.” ~ John Keats
- “Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.” ~ John Keats
- “Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.” ~ John Keats Quotes
- “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” ~ John Keats
- “You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.” ~ John Keats
- “My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.” ~ John Keats
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“A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.” ~ 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
- “Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.” ~ John Keats
- “O aching time! O moments big as years!” ~ John Keats
- “My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it…. I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses” ~ John Keats
- “We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.” ~ John Keats
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“I want a brighter word than bright” ~ John Keats
- “The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.” ~ John Keats
- “Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.” ~ John Keats
- “That which is creative must create itself.” ~ John Keats
- “A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.” ~ John Keats
- “The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.” ~ John Keats
- “Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.” ~ John Keats
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“I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.” ~ John Keats
- “I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!” ~ John Keats
- “You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.” ~ John Keats
- “There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.” ~ John Keats
- “Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.” ~ John Keats
- “Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.” ~ John Keats
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“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.” ~ John Keats
- “Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer forever.” ~ John Keats
- “A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.” ~ John Keats
- “As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;” or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.” ~ John Keats
- “With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.” ~ John Keats
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“I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.” ~ John Keats
- “…I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.” ~ John Keats
- “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
- “There is a budding morrow in midnight.” ~ John Keats
- “Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.” ~ John Keats
