Author: John Keats

Quotes

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

- John Keats

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

- 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

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

- John Keats

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

- 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

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

- John Keats

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

- 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

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