Author: John Keats

Quotes

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

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

- John Keats

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

- John Keats

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

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

- John Keats

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

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

- John Keats

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

- 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

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

- John Keats

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

- 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.

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

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