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John Keats Quotes

Total quotes: 34
“I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.”
— John Keats, The Man Behind The Lyrics
Tagged: Creativity, Passion
“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.”
— John Keats, Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition
Tagged: Books, Wine, Fruits, Passion, Music
“I am profoundly enchanted by the flowing complexity in you.”
— John Keats, A Letter To Fanny Brawne
Tagged: Infatuation, enchantment, Interested in Someone, Cute Things To Say To Her
“The excellence of every Art is its intensity.”
— John Keats, Complete Poems and Selected Letters
Tagged: Art, excellence, Intensity
“On the shore of the wide world I stand alone.”
— John Keats, When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
Tagged: Alone, Loneliness, Isolation, Sad
“I have so much of you in my heart.”
— John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Tagged: Love, romance, Love & Connection
“My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk.”
— John Keats, JOHN KEATS: His Life, His Letters & His Literary Remains(Knowing the Man behind the Lyrics): Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets
Tagged: Imagination, Monastery
“The air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy.”
— John Keats, Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition
Tagged: Poetry, breathing, Missing Someone, Sadness, separation
“My spirit is too weak — mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.”
— John Keats, On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
Tagged: Spirit, Weakness, Mortality, Sleep, Death, Imagination
“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, Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds
Tagged: Poetry, Soul, impact
“You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.”
— John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Tagged: Love, Adoration, Kisses, Smile
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.”
— John Keats, Selected Letters of John Keats
Tagged: Life, Experience, Reality, real, happened, go through
“I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again – my Life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb’d me.”
— John Keats, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats (Modern Library Classics)
Tagged: How To Say I Love You
“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, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats (Modern Library Classics)
Tagged: Summer, Seasons
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
— John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance
Tagged: beauty, lovely, Nothingness
“And when thou art weary
I'll find thee a bed,
Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.”
— John Keats, The Complete Poems
Tagged: Care, Weariness, Comfort
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.”
— John Keats, Letter to G. and F. Keats
Tagged: Art, beauty, Truth, Creativity
“They will explain themselves — as all poems should do without any comment.”
— John Keats, Letter to George Keats
Tagged: poem, explanation, Unraveling, Poetry
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
— John Keats, Letters Of John Keats
Tagged: Change, Intelligence, Soul, Growth
“I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth.”
— John Keats, The Complete Poems of John Keats [Illustrated]
Tagged: Poetry, Beatuy, Truth
“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, Faery Songs
Tagged: Flower, Bloom, Sadness, Ending
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity — he is continually informing — and filling some other body.”
— John Keats, Letter to Richard Woodhouse
Tagged: Poet, Poetry, Existence, Identity, Creativity
“You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...”
— John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Longing, Distance
“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”
— John Keats, The Complete Poems
Tagged: poem, Poetry, Poets, Failure, Fear, Life Is A Journey
“I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with pleasures.”
— John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Tagged: Love, Feelings, Belief, Fear
“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”
— John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Tagged: Love, Selfish, breathing
“I will clamber through the clouds and exist.”
— John Keats, Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
Tagged: Death, Existence, passing
“What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth.”
— John Keats, The Complete Poems of John Keats [Illustrated]
Tagged: beauty, Truth, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter.”
— John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems
Tagged: Melodies, Sweet Melodies, Unheard Melodies
“I find I cannot exist without Poetry.”
— John Keats, Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
Tagged: Existing, Poetry, poem, Writing, Existence
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
— John Keats, On The Grasshopper And Cricket
Tagged: Poetry, Earth, Nature, positive, Beauty of Nature, Awe Of Nature, My Favorites
“I burn’d
And ached for wings.”
— John Keats, John Keats: The Complete Poems(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Run Away, Escape
“The poetical character... is not itself — it has no self — it is every thing and nothing — It has no character — it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it fair or foul, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated. — It has as much delight in conceiving an Iago as an Imogen. What shocks the virtuous philospher, delights the camelion poet.”
— John Keats, Letter to Richard Woodhouse
Tagged: Poetry, character, Poetical Character
“My dearest Girl,

I cannot exist without you — I am forgetful of every thing 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 dissolving—I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you. I should be afraid to separate myself far from you. My sweet Fanny, will your heart never change? My love, will it? I have no limit now to my love.

I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion — I have shudder’d at it — I shudder no more. I could be martyr’d for my Religion — Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet — You have ravish’d me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I have endeavoured often ‘to reason against the reasons of my Love.’ I can do that no more — the pain would be too great — My Love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

Yours for ever

John Keats”
— John Keats, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats (Modern Library Classics)
Tagged: Stunning Love Letters
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