"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats Quotes
1795–1821 England
John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement.
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Also known as: Keats, Keats, John
168 quotes
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
Epitaph for himself (1821)
Letters (1817)
Call the world if you please "The vale of soul-making."
Letters (1817)
Letters (1817)
Scenery is fine — but human nature is finer.
Letters (1817)
Letters (1817)
Letters (1817)
Letters (1817)
Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.
Letters (1817)
The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream — he awoke and found it truth.
Letters (1817)
There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.
Letters (1817)
Works of genius are the first things in this world.
Letters (1817)
I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
Letters (1817)
I never felt so near the glory of Patriotism, the glory of making by any means a country happier.
They will explain themselves — as all poems should do without any comment.
Letters (1817)
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
Endymion (1818)
Open afresh your round of starry folds,
Ye ardent marigolds!
Poems (1817)
The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.
Hyperion: A Fragment (1819)
The silver snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.
Poems (1820)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Keats (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.