John Keats Quotes

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he’s awake who thinks himself asleep.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion– I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

‘Tis the witching hour of night,Orbed is the moon and bright.And the stars they glisten, glisten,Seeming with bright eyes to listen-For what listen they?