More Quotes by John Keats
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
All writing is a form of prayer.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.