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 Poetry
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. -John Keats Beauty
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? -John Keats Intelligence
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. -John Keats Nature
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that. -John Keats Men
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. -John Keats Poetry
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. -John Keats Death
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. -John Keats Romantic
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. -John Keats Death
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. -John Keats Poetry
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. -John Keats Romantic
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that. -John Keats Religion
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. -John Keats Beauty
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. -John Keats Beauty
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. -John Keats Beauty
