Quotes from John Keats
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forgetWhat thou among the leaves hast never known,The weariness, the fever, and the fretHere, where men sit and hear each other groan;Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,Where youth grows pale, and specter-thin, and dies;Where but to think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed despairs.
- John Keats
The poetry of earth is never dead.
- John Keats
The crown of theseIs made of love and friendship, and sits highUpon the forehead of humanity.
- John Keats
I met a lady in the meadsFull beautiful, a faery's child;Her hair was long, her foot was light,And her eyes were wild.
- John Keats
Forlorn! the very word is like a bellTo toll me back from thee to my sole self!
- John Keats
A virgin purest lipp'd, yet in the loreOf love deep learned to the red heart's core.
- John Keats
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may findThee sitting careless on a granary floor,Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,Drows'd with the fume of poppies while thy hookSpares the next swath and all its twined flowers.
- John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.
- John Keats
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity—it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance.
- John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
- John Keats
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
- John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.
- John Keats