john keats

John Keats was one of the most popular English poets of the English Romantic movement. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats’s poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature.

John Keats was born in 1795 at 85 Moorgate in London, where his father, Thomas Keats, was a hostler. The pub is now called “Keats The Grove”, only a few yards from Moorgate station.

The famous odes he produced during the spring and summer of 1819 include: Ode to Psyche, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, and To Autumn.

Keats developed his poetic theories, chief among them Negative Capability and The Mansion of Many Apartments, in letters to friends and family. In particular, he stated he wished to be a “chameleon poet” and to resist the “egotistical sublime” of Wordsworth’s writing.

Here is a collection of memorable quotes by John Keats.

He wrote a lot of quotes and poetry on beauty. here are some Beauty Quotes from 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.”

“‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

And some life quotes like, “He ne’er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.”

And for him Love was the religion,
“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.”

Who wouldn’t have fallen for such fine word:

“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 love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

And on Man and his vanity, he had some nice things to say,

“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.”

“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”

“Love is my religion – I could die for it.”

“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” How true!

?€œLove is my religion – I could die for it.?€




?€œWhat the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.?€

?€œIf poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all?€

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not.”

“Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.”

“Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”

“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.”

“O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings.”

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”

“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.”

“Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.”

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”

“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.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”

“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”

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

“You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.”

“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.”

?€œA proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it?€

?€œI wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.?€

“I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.”