“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