John Keats Quotes & Sayings

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

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

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

“You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.”

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

“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.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

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

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

“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.”