Quotes from John Keats

I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

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.

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

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

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.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience.

Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away.

O aching time! O moments big as years!

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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

I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!

Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.

I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.

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

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—'t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.