Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from John Keats

John Keats English lyric poet (1795 - 1821)


John Keats - -
- Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

John Keats - Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
- O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.

John Keats -
- What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

John Keats -
- I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats - Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - died 1 year later
- If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats -
- I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats - Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
- I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.

John Keats -
- Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen
For what listen they?

John Keats -
- Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.