Quotes from John Keats

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

Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it

My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink

Love is like the moon, when it does not increase, it decreases

I wish to beleave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.