Quotes from John Keats

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!

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.

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.

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.

Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience.

Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away.

O aching time! O moments big as years!

I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!

Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.