John Keats Quotes
English Romantic poet who died at twenty-five, leaving odes of extraordinary beauty. Keats wrote that a thing of beauty is a joy forever — and proved it. Below are 16 of the most loved John Keats quotes, chosen from across their works and letters. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Touch has a memory.
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success.
Now a soft kiss — aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream — he awoke and found it true.
Scenery is fine — but human nature is finer.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.