1795-1821, British Poet
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John Keats – [Death and Dying]

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
John Keats – [Travel and Tourism]

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John Keats – [Imagination]

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 – [Laziness]

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
John Keats – [Experience]

O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet the Evening listens.
John Keats – [Birds]

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings
John Keats – [Solitude]

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats – [Poetry and Poets]

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 and Poets]

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 – [Critics and Criticism]

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats – [Excellence]

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
John Keats – [Adolescence]

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. Not a select party.
John Keats – [Opinions]

The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
John Keats – [Public]

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 – [Family]

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]

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats – [Failure]

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
John Keats – [Security]

There's a blush for won t, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.
John Keats – [Embarrassment]

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 – [Quarrels]

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