More Quotes by John Keats
All writing is a form of prayer.
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.
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.
I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever
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.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
