John Keats

Poet English 1795 – 1821

English Romantic poet famous for odes and sensual verse.

385 quotes

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever"
Beauty
"The poetry of the earth is never dead"
Nature
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections"
Love
"Negative capability is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties without irritably reaching for fact"
Wisdom
"You are always new; the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest"
Love
"Life must be lived as play"
Life
"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death"
Time
"Does the imagination dwell the most upon a woman's features and form"
Imagination
"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music"
Change
"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody"
Truth
"Bright Star would I were stedfast as thou art"
Art
"The human soul is made to love and admire continually"
Love
"Several things dovetailed in my mind and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement"
Success
"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold"
Adventure
"I think we may class the chief of the blessings as the perception of beauty"
Beauty
"Love is a great beautifier"
Love
"Unheard melodies are sweeter"
Music
"The eve of St. Agnes is a time for love"
Love
"To be a poet is to be a channel"
Creativity
"The greatest poet only uses words as a medium to express what language cannot express"
Art
"My love has made me selfish"
Love
"We are all fools in love"
Love
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious"
Beauty
"Call the world if you please the vale of soul-making"
Life
"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify"
Strength
"I am but a type of what I am to be"
Hope
"A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence"
Literature
"I have loved the principle of beauty in all things"
Beauty
"Every department of knowledge is that food and support of our being"
Knowledge
"The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream"
Imagination