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More Quotes by John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
All writing is a form of prayer.
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.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
