John Keats
20 quotations
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
I always made an awkward bow.
Health is my expected heaven.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings
Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.