John Keats Quotes About Love, Beauty, poetry, Life

John Keats Quotes About Love, Beauty, poetry, Life

John Keats (31 October 1795-23 February 1821) was a Romantic poet from England. He was one of the leading figures in the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite having published his works at the age of 25 just four years before his death from tuberculosis. Although his poems during his lifetime were generally not well received by critics, his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the 19th century he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He had a huge influence on a diverse variety of poets and authors. Jorge Luis Borges claimed that the most important literary experience of his life was his first contact with Keats' work. Keats' poetry is characterized by sensual imagery, in the sequence of odes most notably. This is characteristic of romantic poets, as they were aimed at accentuating intense emotion through a reliance on natural imagery. Today his poems and letters are among the most famous in English literature and are most analyzed. Some of Keats' most celebrated plays are "Ode to a Nightingale," "Sleep and Poetry" and the famous sonnet "On First Looking into the Homer of Chapman"

John Keats Quotes:

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

John Keats

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

John Keats

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats

Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats

Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.

John Keats

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

John Keats

He ne’er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

John Keats

Love is my religion – I could die for it.

John Keats

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.

John Keats

Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.

John Keats

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.

John Keats

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

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