John Keats Quotes

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John Keats

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 31, 1795

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats

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.

John Keats

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

John Keats

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

John Keats

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

John Keats

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.

John Keats

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.

John Keats

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

John Keats

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.

John Keats

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

John Keats

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

John Keats

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

John Keats

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.

John Keats