Author: John Keats

Quotes

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

- 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.

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

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

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

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

- 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

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

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

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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