John Keats was a famous Poet from England, who lived between October 31, 1795 and February 23, 1821. He/she became only 25 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 31 quotes who is written / told by John, under the main topics: Love - Experience - Beauty - Poetry.
"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"
"Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss"
"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced"
"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk"
"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen"
"Love is my religion - I could die for it"
"Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever"
"It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel"
"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest"
"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"
"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else"
"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"
"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"
"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top"
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination"
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water"
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter"
"He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead"
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness"
"The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility"
"The poetry of the earth is never dead"
"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"
"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate"
"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer"
"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"
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance"
"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 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"
