John Keats Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”

“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”

“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”

“Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.”

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

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

“Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.”