Quotes from John Keats
So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud, Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.
- John Keats
Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live.
- John Keats
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.
- John Keats
You are always new to me.
- John Keats
I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.
- John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
- John Keats
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
- John Keats
My creed is love and you are its only tenet.
- John Keats
I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.
- John Keats
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
- John Keats
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.
- John Keats
'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?
- John Keats