More Quotes by John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.
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.
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.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
To silence gossip, don't repeat it.
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
