Quotes by John Keats

“Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there they do not know me not even my most intimate acquaintance - I give into their feelings as...”

“And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun/ And she forgot the blue above the trees,/ And she forgot the dells where waters run,/ And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze;/ She had no knowledge whe...”

“Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”

“To Sleep"O soft embalmer of the still midnight, Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, Enshaded in forgetfulness divine:O soothest Sleep! if so ...”

“I must choose between despair and EnergyI choose the latter.”

“But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy waysI cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon...”

“Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infini...”

“Call the world, if you please, "the Vale of Soul Making". Then you will find out the use of the world....There may be intelligences or sparks of the divinity in millions -- but they are not Souls t...”

“I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.”

“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

“Love is my religion - I could die for it.”

“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”

“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”

“There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music. ”

“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.”

“You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.”

“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.”

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”