John Keats quotes Born: 10/31/1795 Died: 02/23/1820 Country: united_kingdom

• Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. (John Keats) [love/beauty]
• When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain. (John Keats) [brain]
• I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. (John Keats) [water/top]
• Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. (John Keats) [land/weakness/death]
• I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. (John Keats) [think/class/lawyer]
• Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves? (John Keats) [wish]
• 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)
• There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. (John Keats)
• Health is my expected heaven. (John Keats) [health]
• I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. (John Keats) [fail]
• The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness. (John Keats) [wife/beauty/more/happiness]
• Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. (John Keats) [life]
• I always made an awkward bow. (John Keats) [awkward]
• The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. (John Keats) [art]
• My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. (John Keats) [imagination]
• I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence. (John Keats) [love/wings]
• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen. (John Keats) [gold]
• 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. (John Keats) [human/nature/human/heroism]
• My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. (John Keats) [state/brain/rest/soul & body]
• I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that. (John Keats) [men/religion/more/religion]
• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. (John Keats)
• It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. (John Keats)
• 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. (John Keats) [willpower/give/vanity/wisdom]
• I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity. (John Keats)
• Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good? (John Keats) [love/death/giant/more]
• 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. (John Keats) [poetry/surprise/strike/thoughts]
• A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it. (John Keats) [life]
• The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. (John Keats) [thing/help/feelings]
• What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth. (John Keats) [imagination/beauty/truth]
• 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. (John Keats) [quarrel/thing/quarrel]
• O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings (John Keats) [solitude]

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