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John Keats Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“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 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
“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
“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
“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 will clamber through the clouds and exist.”
— John Keats, Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
Tagged: Death, Existence, passing
“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
“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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