More Quotes by John Keats
Stop and consider! life is but a day
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
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.
All writing is a form of prayer.
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.
To silence gossip, don't repeat it.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
