Famous Quotes by John Keats

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”

John Keats

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

John Keats

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”

John Keats

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

John Keats

“Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine—Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile madeThe tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade”

John Keats

“For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.”

John Keats

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”

John Keats

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

John Keats

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”

John Keats

“I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.”

John Keats

“I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving.”

John Keats