Top 15 John Keats Quotes

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

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

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.

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Touch has a memory.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

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

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

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

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

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

"Tis "the witching time of night", / Orbed is the moon and bright, / And the stars they glisten, glisten, / Seeming with bright eyes to listen — "

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

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.