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John Keats Quotes

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

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

Ego, One You Love, Loses

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

Life, Beauty, Beautiful

Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Positive, Happiness, Real

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 March 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 81

To stay youthful, stay useful.

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.

Cheer, Failure, Errors

I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever

Love, Stars, Night

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Inspirational, Truth, Lying

Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817

You are always new to me.

Relationship

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.

Inspirational, Mean, Science

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 24 September 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 213

I have so much of you in my heart.

Love, Romantic, Heart

John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.313, Harvard University Press

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

Beauty, Truth, Philosophy

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget.

Forget, Far Away, Fades

'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 3

Stop and consider! life is but a day

Life Is

'Sleep and Poetry' (1817) l. 85

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

Love, Marriage, Summer

John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.245, Oxford University Press, USA

To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

Gossip, Silence, Repeats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Happiness, Beauty, Nature

Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Life, Depression, Wisdom

John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.824, Delphi Classics

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Failure, Discovery, Highways

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Dream, Hope, Shadow

John Keats (1818). “Endymion: A Poetic Romance”, p.43

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.

Love, Crush, Men

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

Men, Allegory

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 February 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 67

A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

Lakes, Water, Poetry

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Music, Spiritual, Sweet

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 11 (1820)

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.

Failure, Success And Failure, Highways

Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

Soul, Tears, World

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