Quotes by John Keats

John Keats

John Keats

English poet

Lived from: 1795 - 1821

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 31 october 1795 Died: 23 february 1821

  • The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
  • O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.
  • Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
  • Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
  • 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.
  • When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
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  • A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.
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  • A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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  • I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom - one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
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  • 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.
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  • A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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  • Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
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  • Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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  • Beauty is truth, truth is all ye know on earth, and all Ye need to know.
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  • Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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  • Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
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  • Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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  • Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
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  • I always made an awkward bow.
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  • I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
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  • I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
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  • I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.
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  • I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
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  • I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
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  • I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.
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What are the most famous quotes from John Keats?

The two most famous quotes from John Keats are:

  • "A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory."
  • "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

When did John Keats live?

John Keats was born in 1795 and died in the year 1821.