100 Timeless Quotes By John Keats That Will Touch Your Heart
English Romantic poet John Keats is counted amongst the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Even though Keats died at the young age of 25, it was not before he had created a significant amount of literary output that earned him acclaim for long after his death. Keats’ poetry is characterized by sensual imagery, as was common in Romantic poetry of his era. Even though not famous during his lifetime, his popularity catapulted to great heights in the years following his untimely death from tuberculosis. Highly prolific in life, he left behind some works which eventually made him one of the most beloved of all English poets. Even almost two centuries after his death, he remains a much studied and admired British poet. These poignant quotes by the John Keats are sure to tug at the strings of your heart!
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.
Touch has a memory.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit
I want a brighter word than bright
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not
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.
I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!
The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
I have so much of you in my heart.
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one!
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
