John Keats Quotes

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats

Life, Beauty, Beautiful

Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

John Keats

Positive, Happiness, Real

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 March 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 81

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Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

John Keats

Ego, One You Love, Loses

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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

Love, Stars, Night

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

John Keats

Inspirational, Truth, Lying

Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817

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To stay youthful, stay useful.

John Keats

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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

Cheer, Failure, Errors

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Stop and consider! life is but a day

John Keats

Life Is

'Sleep and Poetry' (1817) l. 85

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... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.

John Keats

Air, Sea, Sky

John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.266, Рипол Классик

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I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

John Keats

Despair, Energy, Latter

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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

Inspirational, Mean, Science

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 24 September 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 213

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I have so much of you in my heart.

John Keats

Love, Romantic, Heart

John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.313, Harvard University Press

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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

John Keats

Woven, World, Invention

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

Beauty, Truth, Philosophy

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)

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You are always new to me.

John Keats

Relationship

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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

John Keats

Soul, Tears, World

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To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

John Keats

Gossip, Silence, Repeats

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

John Keats

Music, Spiritual, Sweet

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 11 (1820)

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A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

John Keats

Men, Allegory

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 February 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 67

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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

John Keats

Art, Excellence, Intensity

Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 192

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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

John Keats

Pain, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure

John Keats (2009). “Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats”, p.160, Modern Library

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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

John Keats

Dream, Hope, Shadow

John Keats (1818). “Endymion: A Poetic Romance”, p.43

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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

Failure, Discovery, Highways

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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

Lakes, Water, Poetry

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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

John Keats

Selfish, Love Is, Breathe

John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.311, Oxford University Press, USA

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Born: October 31, 1795
Died: February 23, 1821
Occupation: Poet
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