More Quotes by John Keats
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
I have so much of you in my heart.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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.
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.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
