Author: John Keats

Quotes

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.

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

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

- John Keats

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

- John Keats

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

- John Keats

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

- John Keats

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

- John Keats

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

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

- John Keats

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

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

- John Keats

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

- John Keats

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