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John Keats [1795-1821] English

Rank: 11
Poet (with poems)

Aestheticism, Agnosticism, Bipolar disorder, Epic, Gothic, Romanticism, Sonnet

John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death.

Beauty, Poetry, Imagination, Nature, Romantic, Truth, Death, Love, Religion, Valentine's Day, Art, Experience, Failure, Great, Intelligence, Men, Music, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.	Love, Romantic	100
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.	Beauty	102
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.	Beauty, Imagination, Truth	103
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.	Beauty, Truth	104
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.	Valentine's Day	105
The poetry of the earth is never dead.	Nature, Poetry	106
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.		107
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.	Wisdom	108
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.		109
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.	Poetry	110
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.	Nature	111
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.	Romantic	112
Love is my religion - I could die for it.	Love, Religion	113
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.	Experience	114
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.	Imagination, Romantic, Truth	115
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.	Men, Religion	116
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.		117
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.	Imagination	118
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.	Valentine's Day	119
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.	Art	120
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.	Beauty, Great	121
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.	Death	122
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.		123
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.	Music	124
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.	Nature	125
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.		126
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.	Poetry	201
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.	Poetry	202
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.		203
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?	Intelligence	204
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.	Beauty	205
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.	Death	206
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.		207
The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.		208
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.		209
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.	Failure	210
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.		211
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.		212

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