More Quotes by 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.
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.
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?
I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever
Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.