613 Quotes by John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

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.

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

The world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could die for you.My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

When by my solitary hearth I sit,When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit,And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head.

Life is but a day;A fragile dew-drop on its perilous wayFrom a tree’s summit.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not