Top 300 John Keats Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

— John Keats

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2. “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

— John Keats

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3. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”

— John Keats

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4. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

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7. “Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

— John Keats

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8. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter.”

— John Keats

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9. “Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego.”

— John Keats

10. “Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.”

— John Keats

11. “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.”

— John Keats

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12. “Touch has a memory.”

— John Keats

13. “Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”

— John Keats

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14. “To stay youthful, stay useful.”

— John Keats

15. “Love is my religion – I could die for it.”

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

17. “O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!”

— John Keats

18. “Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.”

— John Keats

19. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.”

— John Keats

20. “My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

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22. “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.”

— John Keats

23. “With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”

— John Keats

24. “A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.”

— John Keats

25. “I have so much of you in my heart.”

— John Keats

26. “Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?”

— John Keats

27. “Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success...”

— John Keats

28. “I don’t need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever.”

— John Keats

29. “Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.”

— John Keats

30. “Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them; thou has thy music too.”

— John Keats

31. “To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.”

— John Keats

32. “I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.”

— John Keats

33. “You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...”

— John Keats

34. “Shed no tear – O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more – O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.”

— John Keats

35. “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”

— John Keats

36. “On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.”

— John Keats

37. “Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.”

— John Keats

38. “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.”

— John Keats

39. “And when thou art weary I’ll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.”

— John Keats

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40. “We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.”

— John Keats

41. “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art – Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite.”

— John Keats

42. “I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.”

— John Keats

43. “Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.”

— John Keats

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44. “The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

— John Keats

45. “Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.”

— John Keats

46. “So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud, Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed Waving thy silver pinions o’er my head.”

— John Keats

47. “The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!”

— John Keats

48. “There is a budding morrow in midnight.”

— John Keats

49. “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

50. “The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.”

— John Keats