John Keats > Quotes

“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.”
― John Keats

“Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one!”
― John Keats

“Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”
― John Keats

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”
― John Keats

“Here lies one whose name was writ on water.”
― John Keats

“The excellence of every Art is its intensity.”
― John Keats, Complete Poems and Selected Letters

“My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.”
― John Keats

“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,
Let it not be among the jumbled heap
Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep,—
Nature’s observatory—whence the dell,
Its flowery slopes, its river’s crystal swell,
May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep
’Mongst boughs pavillion’d, where the deer’s swift leap
Startles the wild bee from the fox-glove bell.
But though I’ll gladly trace these scenes with thee,
Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind,
Whose words are images of thoughts refin’d,
Is my soul’s pleasure; and it sure must be
Almost the highest bliss of human-kind,
When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases;
It will never
Pass into nothingness.”
― John Keats

“I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.”
― John Keats

“O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

“You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“Dancing music, music sad,
Both together, sane and mad…”
― John Keats

“I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time...Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“Thou art a dreaming thing,
A fever of thyself.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.”
― John Keats

“Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,
What can I do to kill it and be free?”
― John Keats

“You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.”
― John Keats

“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”
― John Keats

“My chest of books divide amongst my friends--”
― John Keats

“It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.”
― John Keats

“I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of everything 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 was dissolving – I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you … 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.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“I bade good morrow,
And thought to leave her far away behind;
But cheerly, cheerly,
She loves me dearly;
She is so constant to me, and so kind.

- To Sorrow”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

“And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed,
Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

“The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.”
― John Keats

“Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget...”
― John Keats

“I will clamber through the clouds and exist.”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

“It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores”
― John Keats