John Keats Top 10 Quotes

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

John Keats (Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 1817)

Is there another life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

John Keats (Letter to Charles Brown, 1820)

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.

John Keats (Endymion - Book I, 1818)

That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim.

John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale)

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

John Keats (Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820)

Music’s golden tongue
Flatter’d to tears this aged man and poor.

John Keats (The Eve of St. Agnes)

Love is my religion,
I could die for that.

John Keats (Letter to Fanny Brawne, 1819)

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

John Keats (Ode on a Grecian Urn)

The poetry of earth is never dead.

John Keats (On the Grasshopper and Cricket)

He never is crowned
With immortality, who fears to follow
Where airy voices lead.

John Keats (Endymion - Book II, 1818)