John Keats Quotes - Page 2

• John Keats / Poet

A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.

• John Keats / Poet

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

• John Keats / Poet

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

• John Keats / Poet

All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.

• John Keats / Poet

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.

• John Keats / Poet

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

• John Keats / Poet

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

• John Keats / Poet

My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

• John Keats / Poet

Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu

• John Keats / Poet

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

• John Keats / Poet

But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

• John Keats / Poet

Works of genius are the first things in the world.

• John Keats / Poet

It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores

• John Keats / Poet

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

• John Keats / Poet

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

• John Keats / Poet

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

• John Keats / Poet

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

• John Keats / Poet

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

• John Keats / Poet

My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.

• John Keats / Poet

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

• John Keats / Poet

Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.

• John Keats / Poet

If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.

• John Keats / Poet

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

• John Keats / Poet

Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!

• John Keats / Poet

Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.

• John Keats / Poet

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

• John Keats / Poet

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

• John Keats / Poet

The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.

• John Keats / Poet

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

• John Keats / Poet

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

• John Keats / Poet

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

• John Keats / Poet

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

• John Keats / Poet

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

• John Keats / Poet

Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

• John Keats / Poet

The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.

• John Keats / Poet

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

• John Keats / Poet

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

• John Keats / Poet

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

• John Keats / Poet

So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours.

• John Keats / Poet

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.

• John Keats / Poet

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

• John Keats / Poet

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.

• John Keats / Poet

And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

• John Keats / Poet

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?

• John Keats / Poet

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

• John Keats / Poet

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

• John Keats / Poet

Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.

• John Keats / Poet

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.

• John Keats / Poet

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

• John Keats / Poet

There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.