More Quotes by John Keats
Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
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.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
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.
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.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
