Top 300 John Keats Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.”

— John Keats

52. “All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.”

— John Keats

53. “There is an old saying “well begun is half done”-’tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all ’til half done.”

— John Keats

54. “There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.”

— John Keats

55. “How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty’s self.”

— John Keats

56. “I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again – my Life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving...”

— John Keats

57. “O aching time! O moments big as years!”

— John Keats

58. “Stop and consider! life is but a day.”

— John Keats

59. “I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

— John Keats

60. “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.”

— John Keats

61. “Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.”

— John Keats

62. “Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is – Love, forgive us! – cinders, ashes, dust.”

— John Keats

63. “Severn – I – lift me up – I am dying – I shall die easy; don’t be frightened – be firm, and thank God it has come.”

— John Keats

64. “When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance...”

— John Keats

65. “If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.”

— John Keats

66. “My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”

— John Keats

67. “It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, – It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.”

— John Keats

68. “There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.”

— John Keats

69. “I will clamber through the clouds and exist.”

— John Keats

70. “Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience.”

— John Keats

71. “Call the world if you please “the vale of soul-making.” Then you will find out the use of the world.”

— John Keats

72. “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.”

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

74. “I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.”

— John Keats

75. “The excellence of every Art is its intensity.”

— John Keats

76. “My chest of books divide amongst my friends –.”

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

78. “For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.”

— John Keats

79. “A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.”

— John Keats

80. “I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.”

— John Keats

81. “To feel forever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon in death.”

— John Keats

82. “I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave – thank God for the quiet grave – O! I can feel the cold earth upon me – the daisies growing over me – O for this quiet – it will be my first.”

— John Keats

83. “Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.”

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

85. “Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live.”

— John Keats

86. “Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.”

— John Keats

87. “Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.”

— John Keats

88. “The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.”

— John Keats

89. “That which is creative must create itself.”

— John Keats

90. “Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”

— John Keats

91. “Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget...”

— John Keats

92. “If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me – nothing to make my friends proud of my memory – but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.”

— John Keats

93. “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.”

— John Keats

94. “Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?”

— John Keats

95. “Works of genius are the first things in the world.”

— John Keats

96. “What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move My heart so potently?”

— John Keats

97. “They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.”

— John Keats

98. “Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm’d magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.”

— John Keats

99. “O magic sleep! O comfortable bird, That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mind Till it is hush’d and smooth!”

— John Keats

100. “I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.”

— John Keats